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FYI: Will People Ever Evolve Out of Craving Unhealthy Food?
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FYI: Will People Ever Evolve Out of Craving Unhealthy Food?

By Amber Williams

Is This New Study the Nail in the Coffin of “Arsenic Life”?
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Is This New Study the Nail in the Coffin of “Arsenic Life”?

By Tom Clynes

Video: Skin Augmented With Spider-Silk Stops a Speeding Bullet
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Video: Skin Augmented With Spider-Silk Stops a Speeding Bullet

By Clay Dillow

An ‘Operating System’ That Runs on Cells Could Create Whole New Life Forms
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An ‘Operating System’ That Runs on Cells Could Create Whole New Life Forms

By Clay Dillow

Video: Single-Celled Creatures As Big As Your Fist Found in Mariana Trench
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Video: Single-Celled Creatures As Big As Your Fist Found in Mariana Trench

By Clay Dillow

Searching for Life in All the Right Places
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Searching for Life in All the Right Places

By Jennifer Abbasi

Ocean Explorers Find Largest Virus Ever Seen, 20 Times Bigger than the Average Bug
Environment

Ocean Explorers Find Largest Virus Ever Seen, 20 Times Bigger than the Average Bug

By Rebecca Boyle

New Shrimp Farming Technique Yields Record Hauls of Jumbo Shrimp from Minimal Water
Environment

New Shrimp Farming Technique Yields Record Hauls of Jumbo Shrimp from Minimal Water

By Clay Dillow

Ten Astounding Cases of Modern Evolution and Adaptation
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Ten Astounding Cases of Modern Evolution and Adaptation

By Dan Nosowitz

Jurassic Mammal Fossil Hints At Earlier Split Between Placental Mammals and Marsupials
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Jurassic Mammal Fossil Hints At Earlier Split Between Placental Mammals and Marsupials

By Rebecca Boyle

Doctors Who Work With X-Rays May Be Adapting at the Cellular Level to Withstand Radiation
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Doctors Who Work With X-Rays May Be Adapting at the Cellular Level to Withstand Radiation

By Rebecca Boyle

Infecting Mosquitoes With Contagious Gonad-Attacking Bacteria Could Block Dengue Fever
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Infecting Mosquitoes With Contagious Gonad-Attacking Bacteria Could Block Dengue Fever

By Clay Dillow

‘Epidermal Electronics’ Paste Peelable Circuitry On Your Skin, Just Like A Temporary Tattoo
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‘Epidermal Electronics’ Paste Peelable Circuitry On Your Skin, Just Like A Temporary Tattoo

By Rebecca Boyle

Found: A Batch of DNA Molecules That Seem To Have Originated in Space
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Found: A Batch of DNA Molecules That Seem To Have Originated in Space

By Clay Dillow

The Man Who Would Stop Time
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The Man Who Would Stop Time

By Joseph Hooper

Cancers Are Newly Evolved Parasitic Species, Biologist Argues
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Cancers Are Newly Evolved Parasitic Species, Biologist Argues

By Rebecca Boyle

Some Mice Have Become Immune to Poison Through Natural but Highly Unusual Evolution
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Some Mice Have Become Immune to Poison Through Natural but Highly Unusual Evolution

By Dan Nosowitz

Human Belly Button Is Home to Hundreds of Never-Before-Seen Species
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Human Belly Button Is Home to Hundreds of Never-Before-Seen Species

By Rebecca Boyle

Why Sex With Creatures from the Future Is a Bad Idea
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Why Sex With Creatures from the Future Is a Bad Idea

By Jennifer Abbasi

New Tougher Bedbugs Are Harder Than Ever to Kill
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New Tougher Bedbugs Are Harder Than Ever to Kill

By Brooke Borel

Study Shows How Bacteria Could Generate Radio Waves
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Study Shows How Bacteria Could Generate Radio Waves

By Clay Dillow

Sir Richard Branson Launches Virgin Oceanic, Will Explore the Deepest Depths of Every Ocean
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Sir Richard Branson Launches Virgin Oceanic, Will Explore the Deepest Depths of Every Ocean

By Dan Nosowitz

NASA Scientist Claims to See Alien Life In Meteorites, Controversy Ensues
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NASA Scientist Claims to See Alien Life In Meteorites, Controversy Ensues

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: Creepy Madagascan Beasts Rub Their Back Hairs Together To Make Squeaks
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Video: Creepy Madagascan Beasts Rub Their Back Hairs Together To Make Squeaks

By Rebecca Boyle

With 30 Meters Left to Drill, Scientists Leave Subterranean Lake Vostok For The Winter, Amid Controversy
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With 30 Meters Left to Drill, Scientists Leave Subterranean Lake Vostok For The Winter, Amid Controversy

By Rebecca Boyle

Giant Pepper For Stuffed Jalapeno Poppers Bred Specifically For Increased Cheese Payload
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Giant Pepper For Stuffed Jalapeno Poppers Bred Specifically For Increased Cheese Payload

By Clay Dillow

Japanese Create A Mutant Mouse That Tweets Like a Bird
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Japanese Create A Mutant Mouse That Tweets Like a Bird

By Clay Dillow

Brilliant 10: Iain Couzin, the Pattern Maker
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Brilliant 10: Iain Couzin, the Pattern Maker

By Jacob Ward

NASA’s Newly Discovered Arsenic-Loving Bacteria Are Fascinating, but Not Aliens [Updated + Video]
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NASA’s Newly Discovered Arsenic-Loving Bacteria Are Fascinating, but Not Aliens [Updated + Video]

By Rebecca Boyle

Scientists Discover Self-Cloning Lizard Species On Vietnamese Restaurant Menu
Environment

Scientists Discover Self-Cloning Lizard Species On Vietnamese Restaurant Menu

By Dan Nosowitz

Future Mars Colonists Could Learn To Terraform By Studying Darwin’s Methods
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Future Mars Colonists Could Learn To Terraform By Studying Darwin’s Methods

By Rebecca Boyle

Evolution of animals
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If Evolution Had Taken a Different Turn, Could Dragons Have Existed?

By Bjorn Carey

Seasoning Livestock Feed With Curry Spices Cuts Methane Emissions 40 Percent
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Seasoning Livestock Feed With Curry Spices Cuts Methane Emissions 40 Percent

By Clay Dillow

Can Plants Think?
Environment

Can Plants Think?

By Rebecca Boyle

Complex Life Evolved One and a Half Billion Years Earlier Than Previously Thought, New Fossils Show
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Complex Life Evolved One and a Half Billion Years Earlier Than Previously Thought, New Fossils Show

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: Scientists Watch Grass Grow, at the Cellular Scale
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Video: Scientists Watch Grass Grow, at the Cellular Scale

By Rebecca Boyle

Venter Institute’s Synthetic Cell Genome Contains Hidden Messages
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Venter Institute’s Synthetic Cell Genome Contains Hidden Messages

By Clay Dillow

Researchers Create the World’s First Fully Synthetic, Self-Replicating Living Cell
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Researchers Create the World’s First Fully Synthetic, Self-Replicating Living Cell

By Clay Dillow

Protein in Cow Brains Holds Promise for Alternative Energy
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Protein in Cow Brains Holds Promise for Alternative Energy

By Clay Dillow

Yard-Long Undersea Bug Terrorizes Robo-Sub, Internet
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Yard-Long Undersea Bug Terrorizes Robo-Sub, Internet

By Clay Dillow

FYI: Why Do Ducks Have Orange Feet?
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FYI: Why Do Ducks Have Orange Feet?

By Bjorn Carey

DARPA Wants to Override Evolution to Make Immortal Synthetic Organisms
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DARPA Wants to Override Evolution to Make Immortal Synthetic Organisms

By Jeremy Hsu

Moscow’s Stray Dogs Evolving Greater Intelligence, Including a Mastery of the Subway
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Moscow’s Stray Dogs Evolving Greater Intelligence, Including a Mastery of the Subway

By Stuart Fox

8 Percent of Human Genome Was Inserted By Virus, and May Cause Schizophrenia
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8 Percent of Human Genome Was Inserted By Virus, and May Cause Schizophrenia

By Stuart Fox

Glowing Prairie Rodents Teach Us the Genetics Of Monogamy
Technology

Glowing Prairie Rodents Teach Us the Genetics Of Monogamy

By Stuart Fox

Vatican Ponders the Existence Of Alien Life
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Vatican Ponders the Existence Of Alien Life

By Stuart Fox

How Much Power Does The Human Brain Require To Operate?
Technology

How Much Power Does The Human Brain Require To Operate?

By Jeremy Hsu

Kissing Evolved To Spread Germs, Not Feelings
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Kissing Evolved To Spread Germs, Not Feelings

By Clay Dillow

Chinese Scientists Engineer the World’s Smartest Rat
Technology

Chinese Scientists Engineer the World’s Smartest Rat

By Stuart Fox

How Your Body Packs Two Meters of DNA Into a Six-Micron Cell Nucleus
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How Your Body Packs Two Meters of DNA Into a Six-Micron Cell Nucleus

By Susannah F. Locke

Genetically Engineered Bacteria To Mine For Gold
Technology

Genetically Engineered Bacteria To Mine For Gold

By Stuart Fox

Scientist Vows To Reverse-Engineer Dinosaur From Chicken
Science

Scientist Vows To Reverse-Engineer Dinosaur From Chicken

By Stuart Fox

A person striking a block of plastic with a hammer, creating white lightning against a blue background.
Health

Harnessing Lightning Bolts to Build Artificial Organs

By Jeremy Hsu

A, T, G, C and What?
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A, T, G, C and What?

By Amber Sasse

Cellular Lego animations
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Cellular Lego animations

By Brooke Borel

Totally Tubular
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Totally Tubular

By Brooke Borel

Didymo
Environment

Nature’s Grossest Creatures

By Jeremy Hsu

Living Fossils
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Living Fossils

By Matt Ransford

For Treating Blindness, Scientists Look to Algae
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For Treating Blindness, Scientists Look to Algae

By Dan Smith

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
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Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

By Matt Ransford

Sickening Sounds
Science

Do Cells Make Noise?

By Corey Binns

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