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Penguin Parents Won’t Chip In to Help Handicapped SpouseTired of your partner not helping out with the kids after you’ve had a tough day at work? At least you’re not a handicapped penguin parent trying to fish with a Plexiglas box strapped to your back. Penguin pairs are known for their elaborate collaboration in raising chicks under hars... |
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Lunar Probe Sends First High-Res ImagesNASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter sent its first images back to Earth after activating its cameras June 30. The LRO has both a low-resolution wide-angle camera and a high-resolution camera. These shots were taken at the boundary between night and day, capturing shadows that exaggerate th... |
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Why You Can’t Keep Your Foot Out of Your MouthIt’s one of the more frustrating aspects of human nature: the harder we try not to say or do or think something, the more likely we are to slip — and often at the worst possible time. But maybe science can help. More than a decade after the inability of a Dostoevsky protagonist to st... |
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New Class of Black Holes DiscoveredOnly two sizes of black holes have ever been spotted: small and super-massive. Scientists have long speculated that an intermediate version must exist, but they’ve never been able to find one until now. Astrophysicists identified what appears to be the first-ever medium-sized black hole, p... |
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Will Obama Save America’s Giant, Smelly Earthworm?Environmentalists have asked the Obama administration to declare the three-foot-long, highly aromatic Palouse earthworm an endangered species, reversing the Bush administration’s mystifying refusal to protect them. Scientifically known as Driloleirus americanus, or “lily-smelling Ame... |
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Salamander Discovery Could Lead to Human Limb RegenerationBy tracking individual cells in genetically modified salamanders, researchers have found an unexpected explanation for their seemingly magical ability to regrow lost limbs. Rather than having their cellular clocks fully reset and reverting to an embryonic state, cells in the salamanders’ s... |
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