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Strong winds blew through Washington State yesterday (Aug. 19), whipping up wildfires and causing them to run into new territory. And tragically, it appears th..
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Planning a vacation is a daunting task, so why not let big data take the reins? That’s exactly what data scientist Randy Olson did. Using specialized algorithm..
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Last week, analyses by NASA and the Japan Meteorological Agency showed that July 2015 was the warmest such month on record. Now, the National Oceanic Atmospher..
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A new study casts doubt on the idea that alcohol causes people to seem more attractive - the famous "beer goggles" effect. Psychologists Olivia Maynard and col..
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As of today (Aug. 19), 78 large fires were burning across 1,260,830 acres in ten states, most of them in the western United States, according to the National I..
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While some businesses are eager to unleash drones and put them to work, one company wants to leash them up. The Fotokite Phi is a drone, built by Zürich-based ..
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They’re ugly. They’re misshapen. They’re perfectly edible. But these fruit and veggies will never make it to the produce section in your grocery store. Vast qu..
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Unlike many other languages, most English words are not innately gendered. But apparently things aren't so simple when it comes to numbers. The authors of this..
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Scientists have long puzzled over how our solar system’s planets formed, because this isn’t a process they can watch unfold. Researchers have generally thought..
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This is an except of a story that ran in the February 2015 issue of Association of Zoos and Aquariums monthly magazine, Connect. Looking for amphibious citizen..
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Hummingbirds’ whole survival strategy is built around motion. Since they can’t afford to linger too long at one flower, they’ve evolved a way to drink nectar i..
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The shifting seasons alter the way we feel about the world, but as it turns out, they also literally change the way we see the world. Researchers from the Univ..
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“Cannabis is like a medicine cabinet,” says Roger Pertwee, who was instrumental in some of the early cannabis trials for multiple sclerosis. “It has a lot of c..
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When a Kentucky man shot his neighbor’s drone out of the sky over his house this July, the story hit a nerve. What’s a guy to do when there’s a drone snooping ..
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Any college student can tell you that overstudying is a waste of energy. When your resources are limited, you should learn the material that's going to be on t..
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Sure, a good book can forever change your perspective on life, but one book can literally save your life. According to the World Health Organization, 3.4 milli..
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I think it's fairly safe to say that gulls are among the least-loved birds in the world. These loud and annoying seabirds have a disturbing lack of fear of lar..
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Guest post by Carrie Freeman In the new world of Big Data, we’ve learned how to acquire great data, but we’re still struggling with accessing it, understanding..
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In Part 1 of this post I discussed the first issue of a new scientific journal, the Journal of Reward Deficiency Syndrome (JRDS). JRDS is an unusual publicatio..
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There are dozens of neurotransmitters in the human brain. How do neuroscientists decide which transmitters are most important? Are there trends and fashions in..
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Last month was the warmest July on record globally, according to independent analyses by NASA, and by the Japan Meteorological Agency. With a significant El Ni..
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Cameras are everywhere now. So it's no surprise that the mammoth explosions in Tianjin, China, and the devastation they wrought, have been documented in grim d..
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Researchers have unraveled the mystery of the Mona Lisa’s enigmatic smile, with help from another Leonardo da Vinci painting that uses the same clever techniqu..
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There’s more science to cheerleading than meets the eye. And for the country’s 3 million cheerleaders, one way to engage with science, technology, engineering ..
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We live on a dynamic planet, so we shouldn't be surprised when rampaging floods and raging fires cause a great deal of misery at the same time. Still, the floo..
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First-person view (FPV) drone racing is about to enter the big leagues. The owner of the Miami Dolphins, Stephen Ross, is investing $1 million in the Drone Rac..
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There’s little doubt that if Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin or Jim Morrison headlined a concert today, it would be the hottest ticket in town. It could happen tomo..
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A new El Niño forecast is out, and while it may not be terribly surprising, it's still worth noting: El Niño will almost certainly be hanging around for at le..
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The most consistently reliable meteor shower—the Perseids—peaks tonight. Under clear, dark, unobstructed skies you might see 60 to 100 meteors an hour. And thi..
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As a society, we are happily ensconced in the internet era. And we're sure that you, oh wonderful blog readers, are among the first to use the internet to find..
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Citizen scientists of the Santa Fe National Forest Site Steward Program in New Mexico volunteer thousands of hours through difficult terrain to record observat..
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Super Typhoon Soudelor may be spinning off into memory now, but I nonetheless thought I'd share this extraordinary animation of the storm's accumulated rainfal..
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Think your airline's bag fees are burdensome? Try flying after swallowing part of your luggage and strapping the rest to your legs. That's how bees do it. And ..
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Twenty-six snakes. Three sting rays. Two centipedes. One scorpion. Like a twisted version of the Twelve Days of Christmas, Dr. Bryan Grieg Fry goes through and..
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Meta-analyses are systematic syntheses of scientific evidence, most commonly randomized controlled clinical trials. A meta-analysis combines the results of mul..
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The wedge-tailed eagle is Australia’s largest bird of prey, and it should strike fear into the heart of drone pilots everywhere. While flying in the Australian..
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Interactive before and after view of the #AnimasRiver @EPA triggered #Minewaste - http://t.co/iB4TP56DUl pic.twitter.com/0nervOkVrx — DurangoHerald (@DurangoHe..
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A plain bite of lettuce was "awesome," astronauts aboard the International Space Station concurred. It helped that it was a rare bite of fresh vegetable. And i..
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If you ask most skygazers to name their favorite meteor shower, the odds are good that “Perseid” will be the first word out of their mouths. This annual shower..
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More than 70 years after the first atomic bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, historians still debate whether or not the atomic bombs played a major role i..
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Planning a hike this summer? Be a trail blazer and add some citizen science to your adventure. Our editors highlight five projects, below, to add to your backp..
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Tired of slathering on sunscreen every time you want to spend some time outside? Try eating chocolate instead! Chocolate naturally contains very high levels of..
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In the first chapter for my upcoming book Venomous (due out in 2016), I excitedly explain how nearly all the sundry branches of the tree of life have venomous ..
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You know that feeling when you're halfway through a sentence and can't think of the next word you need? It's a word you know, but you can't quite bring it to m..
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Another day, another alarming brain-related story hits the news: Dementia is striking victims earlier and death rates are soaring Modern living has led to earl..
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It has been called "The Blob," a gigantic patch of abnormally warm water sitting in the Northeast Pacific Ocean for months. And now, The Blob may have helped m..
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The ancient mountaintop fortress called Masada has stood atop an isolated mesa in southeastern Israel for thousands of years. It stood as an impenetrable fortr..
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The 7.8 magnitude earthquake that shook Nepal in April made headlines across the world. More than 23,000 people were injured and 9,000 killed. The earthquake l..
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Two species of highly toxic frogs have a bone to prick with their predators. Corythomantis greeningi and Aparasphenodon brunois frogs, native to Brazil, have s..
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Seventy years ago today, the crew of the Enola Gay B29 bomber, acting on behalf of the citizens of the United States and the Allies of World War II, dropped an..
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Hikers in the Appalachian mountains contribute data and help researchers learn how climate change is affecting plants living in high Alpine ranges and promote ..
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Pulses of unusually warm water sloshing from the western Pacific Ocean toward South America along the equator have caused El Niño to get even stronger in recen..
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Some drones have an Achilles heal, and it doesn’t sound good. Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have demonstrated t..
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Motorcycle stunts have come a long way from the circus stunts of yesteryear, jumping over snakes or through hoops of fire. But until recently, there was one pl..
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Magnets make much of our gadget-obsessed world go round. But there’s only a limited number of metals that are naturally magnetic, and some of them are quite ra..
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If you’ve ever gotten into a political argument, you’ve probably realized that many people’s political beliefs are deeply entrenched. And that may be partly th..
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Here we go again. Yet another Category 5 cyclone has roared to life — the sixth or seventh of the year (depending on how you count them — keep reading...), and..
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There are millions of people taking part in citizen science across the world, and thousands of practitioners – scientists, educators, computer scientists, and ..
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Buzzing may not be the only thing drones have in common with insects. Tiny drones of the future might “see” their world with tiny, artificial sensors inspired ..
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For the first time, the public can view wreckage from the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle tragedies, which have been kept hidden from view for decades. N..
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Just how much monkey business is there in monkey sex? In groups with alpha males, monkeys lower on the totem pole may have to sneak around to mate. How well th..
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Citizen scientists in Connecticut are creating an atlas of the many species of turtles and helping researchers understand the role of turtles in the ecosystem...
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As we've reported previously, heat is really bad for sperm -- to the extent that a polyester scrotum sling is actually an effective form of contraception. So i..
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NASA plans to fly drones where Federal Aviation Administration rules no longer apply. Engineers at Swamp Works, part of NASA and the U.S. military’s Office of ..
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Once you stick a red-hot ball of nickel onto a block of Velveeta cheese, there’s no turning back. Once you reach that point, everything in the world must pass ..
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There’s an idea circulating that humans are the only animal to experience sexual pleasure; that we approach sex in a way that is distinct from others. As with ..
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"It was just another normal day on Facebook," claims Paulo Gonella, a PhD student at the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil. "I was scrolling down my newsfeed..
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In a new paper just out in Neuron, researchers Timothy Laumann and colleagues present an in-depth analysis of the functional connectivity of a single human bra..
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Human error played the main role in the midair spaceplane disaster that killed a Virgin Galactic test pilot in October. The simple act of unlocking a braking m..
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Smallpox has haunted man for almost as long as we have been walking this earth. The variola virus that causes the deadly pox had been known to liquidate entire..
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Maybe it’s because of the various traumatic ways I lost my baby teeth, but whatever the reason, teeth feature prominently in my nightmares. And now I have yet ..
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Exercise scientist Conrad Earnest was dodging some oblivious pedestrians in England when inspiration struck. He was trying to walk down the sidewalk, but all a..
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Facebook took another step toward its goal of connecting all of the world’s citizens to the Internet. On Thursday, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced t..
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Although magnetism is invisible to our eyes, it powers much of daily life. It drives the electric motors of just about anything that spins: fans, power tools, ..
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The scientific controversy over social priming - the (claimed) ability of incidental exposure to stimuli to 'prime' or evoke complex behaviors - has been rumbl..
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From Picasso’s "The Young Ladies of Avignon" to Munch’s "The Scream," what was it about some paintings that arrested people’s attention upon viewing them, that..
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When an airplane smashes into the dirt at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, researchers get very excited. That's because the Langley team’s ..
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Drones, it appears, can safely deliver precious cargo. Biological specimens, like blood samples, require a smooth ride to the laboratory; excessive turbulence ..
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Swiss scientists discovered a way to warm your hands with slaughterhouse scraps, and it’s not as gross as it sounds. The butchering process yields a host of by..
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You might think that after centuries of breeding, racehorses have reached their peak speeds. And previous studies supported that. But not this one! According t..
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From networks of tubes to running wheels and plastic balls, pet hamsters get all the best accessories. And, it turns out, they probably appreciate it. A new st..
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Amphibians and reptiles, also known asherptiles or herps, are the focus of many citizen science projects. If you like frogs, turtles, and salamanders, just to ..
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As the drone industry continues to gain momentum in the United States, some big-name companies are vying to rule the skies. On Tuesday, Amazon — the company th..
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Besides just throwing back your handsome reflection, in the near future your mirror might tell you a lot about what lies beneath the surface. That’s the goal o..
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The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) last week got a $100 million dollar shot in the arm from the wealthy, Russian Silicon Valley entrepreneur Y..
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Bats are indifferent to whether we're playing soccer, baseball, or beach volleyball under our stadium lights. They only care about the game of catch they're pl..
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This week (via Retraction Watch) we learned about the case of Joseph Maroon. Earlier this year Maroon and colleagues published a paper arguing that the much-di..
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In the last few decades, lasers have become an important part of our lives, with applications ranging from laser pointers and CD players to medical and researc..
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From trilobites to tyrannosaurs, most fossils are of creatures with hard shells or bones. These materials don’t easily biodegrade and sediment has time to buil..
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Instant karma awaits those who choose to empty their bladders on the streets of San Francisco. The San Francisco Public Works Department (SFPW) is coating sele..
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I wasn't intending to post anything on a Sunday night, but I happened on this mind-blowing photograph shot and posted to Twitter by Scott Kelly from the Intern..
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The mother gazes at her naked, lethargic infant, wan with a pustular red rash dotting his chest. She’s dressed in the fashion of the day: a high-necked black b..
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According to British biochemist Donald R. Forsdyke in a new paper in Biological Theory, the existence of people who seem to be missing most of their brain tiss..
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I'm just catching up on some of the recent spectacular imagery of Pluto sent back by the New Horizons spacecraft during its flyby, and this one really caught m..
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Although the Reynolds Creek Fire burning in Glacier National Park may not be particularly large (at least not yet), its smoke plume and even its glow have been..
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Snakes, with their sleek, slithering bodies, are unmistakable amongst the reptiles. Yet for decades, scientists have been debating just how these limbless liza..
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When your drone gets lost on a neighbor’s rooftop, it’s high time to channel your inner MacGyver. And that’s exactly what Harrisen Howes did. Two months ago, H..
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Snakes’ earliest ancestors liked to hug it out. Scientists announced this week the discovery of a 113-million-year-old four-legged reptile fossil found in Braz..
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Are you good at putting yourself in someone else’s shoes? Then there’s a good chance that you enjoy R&B. If, instead, you are drawn to take things apart to..
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Whether you're a person biting her nails during a phone interview or a polar bear pacing its cage, anxious animals often do the same thing over and over. Extre..
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Finally, a car that's easy to parallel park! These awesome nanocars (and nanotrucks!) with actual moving parts are made from large molecular building blocks, i..
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Until today, for all we knew as humans, Earth was the only rocky planet in the universe orbiting a reasonably friendly star within a zone that was neither too ..
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There’s a lot to be learned from the snot whales shoot out of their blowholes. Collecting said snot? Well, that’s a bit of a challenge. Fortunately, researcher..
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Cosmic landers are the go-to technology to get an intimate, on-the-ground look at foreign worlds. But is it possible to similarly explore gassy planets with no..
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Can the thought of money make people more conservative? The idea that mere reminders of money can influence people's attitudes and behaviors is a major claim w..
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The same electromagnetic radiation used to heat up a Hot Pocket could propel a shuttle into space. A Colorado-based technology company, Escape Dynamics, says i..
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Is there such a thing as an ugly penis? How about a pretty one? These researchers set out to determine what features are most important for a "good-looking" do..
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They are called unmanned aerial vehicles but are better known as drones. These are small aerial vehicles with fixed wings or small rotors, are usually powered ..
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Citizen scientists document in collaboration with the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles help document reptiles and amphbians in Southern California to aid ..
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Can our beliefs, motivations and emotions influence our visual perception? Are cognition and perception ultimately inseparable? A lot of recent psychological r..
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Sorry, Detroit, but there’s a new “Motor City” in Michigan. On Monday, the University of Michigan announced the founding of Mcity, a 32-acre stretch of land on..
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You may think you've seen many images of Earth just like this one since the Apollo astronauts snapped the very first one more than four decades ago. But actual..
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The first six months of 2015 comprised the warmest first half of any year on record, surpassing the previous global record for January through June set in 2010..
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At last, the very first drone delivery was performed without a hitch in the United States. On Friday, July 17, NASA and Flirtey drones delivered medications an..
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