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FYI: Why Do Girls Throw Like A Girl?
Brilliant 10: Christy Haynes Reveals the Secrets of the Body’s Blood-Clotting System
Video: A Ball of Metal Bounces Off a Thin Sheet of Super-Tough Hydrogel
The Curious Science of Bodily Functions
Video: A Body-Cooling Glove Could Give Athletes a Better Boost Than Steroids
FYI: Does Training at High Altitudes Help Olympians Win?
Video: The Superhuman Biomechanics Behind Usain Bolt
FYI: Did Prehistoric Birds Evolve Flight By Falling Out of Trees?
Researchers Build First Complete Computer Model of an Entire Organism
At Last, a Breed of Fruit Flies That Can Count Up to Four
Splicing a 500-Million-Year-Old Gene Into Modern Bacteria
In a Cosmology Breakthrough, Astronomers Measure a Filament of Dark Matter
NASA Habitat Competition Looks For Bioregenerative Space Greenhouses
Swiss Scientists Program Mammalian Cells to Work As Logic Gates
Guess What’s Cooking in the Garage
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Are Cells Communicating With Each Other By Emitting Light?
DNA Inside Cells Can Serve As Rewritable Data Storage
Buried Since the Jurassic Era, Ocean Microbes Are Still ‘Barely Alive’
New Primordial Protozoan Species Is Not in Any Known Kingdom of Life
The World’s First Transgenic, ‘Handmade’ Cloned Sheep is Alive and Well in China
James Cameron Has Completed the Deepest Solo Dive Ever
Video: The First Living Animal Ever Imaged With a Scanning Electron Microscope
Birds Might Have a Built-In Head-Up Display Overlaying Navigation Data Onto Their Vision
Virgin Oceanic Wants to Send Humans Back Down into the Mariana Trench
Scientists Use Stem Cells to Generate Human Eggs in the Lab
How Pigs on Antibiotics Are Making Superbugs Stronger
FYI: Will People Ever Evolve Out of Craving Unhealthy Food?
Is This New Study the Nail in the Coffin of “Arsenic Life”?
Video: Skin Augmented With Spider-Silk Stops a Speeding Bullet
The World’s First “Nano-Ear” Can Listen to the Songs of Bacteria
An ‘Operating System’ That Runs on Cells Could Create Whole New Life Forms
Bacteria Can Quickly Swap Genes With Each Other Through A Global Network
Video: Single-Celled Creatures As Big As Your Fist Found in Mariana Trench
Searching for Life in All the Right Places
Nearly All Vertebrates, Including Us, Descended From a Creature With An Electromagnetic Sixth Sense
Ocean Explorers Find Largest Virus Ever Seen, 20 Times Bigger than the Average Bug
Tiny Cilia Inside Corpse’ Noses Could Be a More Reliable Indicator of Time of Death
New Shrimp Farming Technique Yields Record Hauls of Jumbo Shrimp from Minimal Water
Ten Astounding Cases of Modern Evolution and Adaptation
Scottish Scientists Are Trying to Create Inorganic Life
Jurassic Mammal Fossil Hints At Earlier Split Between Placental Mammals and Marsupials
Doctors Who Work With X-Rays May Be Adapting at the Cellular Level to Withstand Radiation
Infecting Mosquitoes With Contagious Gonad-Attacking Bacteria Could Block Dengue Fever
‘Epidermal Electronics’ Paste Peelable Circuitry On Your Skin, Just Like A Temporary Tattoo
Found: A Batch of DNA Molecules That Seem To Have Originated in Space
The Man Who Would Stop Time
Cancers Are Newly Evolved Parasitic Species, Biologist Argues
Some Mice Have Become Immune to Poison Through Natural but Highly Unusual Evolution
Human Belly Button Is Home to Hundreds of Never-Before-Seen Species
Why Sex With Creatures from the Future Is a Bad Idea
New Tougher Bedbugs Are Harder Than Ever to Kill
Study Shows How Bacteria Could Generate Radio Waves
Sir Richard Branson Launches Virgin Oceanic, Will Explore the Deepest Depths of Every Ocean
NASA Scientist Claims to See Alien Life In Meteorites, Controversy Ensues
Video: Creepy Madagascan Beasts Rub Their Back Hairs Together To Make Squeaks
With 30 Meters Left to Drill, Scientists Leave Subterranean Lake Vostok For The Winter, Amid Controversy
Giant Pepper For Stuffed Jalapeno Poppers Bred Specifically For Increased Cheese Payload
Russians Will Be First To Explore Untouched Antarctic Lake Vostok, In Hunt For Weird Life Forms
Japanese Create A Mutant Mouse That Tweets Like a Bird
Brilliant 10: Iain Couzin, the Pattern Maker
NASA’s Newly Discovered Arsenic-Loving Bacteria Are Fascinating, but Not Aliens [Updated + Video]
Scientists Discover Self-Cloning Lizard Species On Vietnamese Restaurant Menu
First Complete Census of Marine Life Catalogs Yeti Crab, Darth Vader Jelly, and 6,000 More
Future Mars Colonists Could Learn To Terraform By Studying Darwin’s Methods
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