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Can animals tell time?

Does your pet give you the evil eye when they get fed a few minutes late? Its like they...

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Could The Gulf Stream collapse?

The Gulf Stream is a current of warm water in the North Atlantic Ocean that travels up the...

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Ice age plant survived the big chill

Like a science fiction time traveler, an arctic plant of the late Pleistocene age, over 31,000...

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Every time you eat a fig, remember a fig wasp lost its wings

Figs have their thousands of individual flowers folded up inside them, so they can't rely on bees...

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Study links air pollution and a decline in cognitive function

Has your brain been feeling foggy lately? Or maybe, smoggy? If you live somewhere affected by air...

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The jellyfish that never grows old

Scientists once thought that aging and death were the inevitable fate of all complex living...

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The great cilantro debate

On today's Moment of Science, we'll be sniffing our way through a controversial culinary...

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Elephant grandmothers means more elephant calves

Grandmother elephants are important for the survival of baby calves.

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Looks delicious! The connection between appearance and taste

English is full of phrases that connect appearance to taste. However, scientists have been...

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Escaping alive from a frog's stomach

Sometimes, when a frog eats a large insect, you can see it squirming in the frog’s belly,...

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Copy your neighbors, but only when they're successful

Scientists looked at the nestbox choices of pied flycatchers after the birds observed the...

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Why are operating rooms so cold?

Is there a reason operating rooms are always so cold and drafty?

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Starfish are all heads, no tails

Colorful or plain, skinny or chubby, big or small, the nearly 2,000 species have it all.

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Skeptics think about vaccines differently

Vaccine skeptics might see vaccines the way they do because they tend to overestimate the...

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Walked or swam? An index can answer

How do scientists figure out even basic facts such as whether an animal walked on land or swam in...

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Play and the brain

Researchers classify an animal behavior as play when it doesn’t involve an external reward, such...

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What we can learn from ancient climate records

Scientists find clues to how the earth's climate is changing by looking to the past.

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Tetrataenite as a solution to the rare earth crisis

Demand for rare earth elements is soaring, and it will continue to grow in the future.

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The effects of bismuth in Pepto Bismol

When the bismuth combines with the trace amounts of sulfur in your saliva and in your...

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King Tut's dagger from space

King Tutankhamen of Egypt has fascinated people ever since archeologist Howard Carter discovered...

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