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Dragon hunting above, dragon hunting below On May 23 — the day after May 27, 2012 09:10 AM |
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I’ve got your missing links right here (26 May 2012) Top picks This is beautiful. Alexis Madrigal
May 26, 2012 12:00 PM |
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Can Stuffing Germs up Ferrets Unleash a Human Pandemic? Don't believe the hype about the would-be killer flu. May 18, 2012 |
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Paranormal Circumstances: One Influential Scientist's Quixotic Mission to Prove ESP Exists From his research to his personal life, Daryl Bem's never been one to follow the crowd. May 14, 2012 |
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The Hagfish's Special Trick for Warding Off Predators: Thick, Sticky Mucus A shark can't eat you if it's gagging on slime. May 10, 2012 |
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A Sweet View of the Icarus of Comets Comet C/2011 N3, a 160-foot-wide ball of rock and ice, was brutally incinerated by the sun’s atmosphere. But it was quite a sight. May 10, 2012 |
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20 Things You Didn't Know About... Curing them by giving yourself hookworms, preventing them by putting RFID tags in your food, and avoiding them in Knoxville, the Allergy Capital of the country. |
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Hidden Epidemic: Tapeworms Living Inside People's Brains Parasitic worms leave millions of victims paralyzed, epileptic, or worse. So why isn’t anyone mobilizing to eradicate them? |
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"We Can Take His Heart Out, Remove the Tumor, and Put It Back In" A patient’s heart tumor is all but inaccessible to his surgeons. The only way to deal with it: Remove the heart and operate on it outside the body. |
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The World's Most Celebrated Virus Hunter: Ian Lipkin The Columbia University researcher describes his quest for HIV in San Francisco and SARS in China, the immune cascades that may cause autism, and the infectious roots of psychiatric disease. |
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Physicists Carve a Niche in Time Six years ago, physicists hid an object behind an invisibility cloak for the first time. Now they're cloaking actual events. |