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Crying Baby Mammals All Sound the Same to Mama
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People Love Their Smartphones but Hate the Batteries [Survey Results]
Scientific American readers say smartphones have not replaced tablets or PCs, and still need better batteries, cameras and biometric security options -
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Why Does Cancer Therapy Make Food Taste Terrible?
The chemicals attack taste buds while the brain associates nausea with eating
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Cities Want Cops to Wear Cameras, but Technology Could Heighten Distrust if Not Carefully Used
Wearing small recording devices could reduce violent confrontations, but without careful planning and better research, the attempt could backfire -
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Movies Can Boost Solar Power
The pattern that stores a film on a Blu-ray disc also can help improve photovoltaics. David Biello reports -
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Robot Athletes Got Game [Video]
From baseball to billiards, robots are improving their play, even competing in the RoboCup and RoboGames -
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World Population Will Soar Higher Than Predicted
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Scrumptious Science: Great Globs of Gluten!
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These Amazing Spiders Look Remarkably Like Ants [Slide Show]
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Best of Thanksgiving 2: Let's Talk Stuffing--Your Face!
Cornell University's Brian Wansink talks about eating behavior and how mindless eating has us consuming way more calories than we suspect.
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Best of Thanksgiving 1: Let's Talk Turkey!
Turkey scientist Rich Buchholz of the University of Mississippi talks about the turkey on your plate and his own turkey research.
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Reality Check: 10 Practical Applications of Illusions
Artists invented illusions hundreds and sometimes thousands of years ago. Today we capitalize on those lessons and apply them to new technologies and formats -
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Mental Health Crises Online: Is Social Media a Friend or Foe?
People are increasingly broadcasting symptoms of mental illness on social media. We should listen -
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Vultures's Gut Bacteria Make Sure Rotten-Meat Diet Isn't Fatal
Gut bacteria and strong gastric juices show how the birds can live on decaying flesh. -
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Ebola’s Relentless Tides: A Timeline
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Cities to the Rescue
As nations dither on meaningful steps to combat climate change, localities are stepping in with their own measures to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases -
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DNA Can Survive Reentry from Space
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Protein Project Could Help Expose Cancer’s Causes
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Artificial Sweeteners May Have Despicable Impacts on Gut Microbes
I find it ironic that Thanksgiving coincides with American Diabetes Month. In honor of that irony, two recently published studies have suggested a possible link between what you eat, how it impacts the behavior of the microbes living in your gut, and type II diabetes.
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