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Essentially flat funding, but the stimulus goes a long way

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Researchers figure out where the world’s second-largest fish goes when it vanishes

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Data show that tiny vibrations play a key role in how these mysterious materials carry electricity without resistance

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As far as your neurons are concerned, intending to move is just as good as actually moving

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Infrared proteins allow researchers to track molecules deep within the tissues of living animals

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Bioelectricity versus ethanol for transportation energy; infrared fluorescent proteins to image mammalian cells and whole mice; fighting the fungus that threatens wheat; and more.

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Scientists studying the world’s most unusual volcano have discovered the reason behind its unique carbon-based lavas. The new geochemical analyses reveals that an extremely small degree of partial melting of typical minerals in the earth’s upper mantle is the source of the rare carbon-derived lava erupting from Tanzania’s Oldoinyo Lengai volcano.

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A new study shows what many mothers already know: babies are a lot smarter than others may realize. Though only five months old, the study’s cuties indicated through their curious stares that they could differentiate water in a glass from solid blue material that looked very much like water in a similar glass. The study [...]

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Women may be more vulnerable than men to the cancer-causing effects of smoking tobacco, according to new results.

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Scientists are using near-infrared night vision technology made famous by American soldiers in the First Gulf War to shed light on the lymphatic system.

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