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Meet CERNs New Particle A DoubleCharm Baryon
This week, CERN announced a new particle that will help further understanding of the fundamental forces, and a simulation of ancient creatures may give us a clue as to how life grew beyond the microscopic.
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Fish Pee: The Coral Reef Superfood
Fish consider the ocean their own personal toilet. Well, researchers found out that's not such a bad thing!
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How Ants Take Care of Their Farms
Hundreds of ant species have been farming for tens of millions of years.
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How Plants Attract Bodyguards
Lots of plants make nectar to attract pollinators, but some make special, extra nectar pots outside their flowers to feed their bodyguards.
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Seed-Inspired Microdevices and Zombie Plants
This week in news, we dive into microfliers inspired by seeds and parasites that turn plants into zombie plants!
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3 Surprising Ways Your Intestines Affect You
Your digestive system impacts the rest of your body in all sorts of unexpected ways, from keeping your heart healthy to literally making you feel happier.
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The New Gel That Regrows Brains
A new healing gel helped mice regrow brain tissue after a stroke, and scientists suspect someone out there is producing a bunch of ozone-destroying CFCs in defiance of an international agreement!
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The Secret Behind Bioluminescent Bays
In a few special places around the world, the ocean lights up at night with countless tiny blue flashes thanks to some tiny organisms and science.
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Why Echidnas Are Evolutionary Misfits
It’s pretty well known that Australia is home to some strange animals, but echidnas are especially weird evolutionary misfits.
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Thank Goodness for Bacterial Cannibalism
Some species of bacteria have a wicked survival strategy: killing members of their own species or a closely-related one. There’s a lot we don’t know about it, but it's possible that someday we could potentially harness that knowledge to...
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Extreme Animal Milks You Probably Don't Want To Drink
All mammals produce milk, but you probably wouldn't want to dip your cookies in all of them.
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How Do Pandas Exist?
Adorable, sure, but how are you alive?? Giant pandas present a conservation challenge like no other. Find out how the bears eke out an existence in the wild, and why they're proving so hard to save.
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Milk Is Just Filtered Blood
Female mammals make milk, a cocktail of filtered blood, to provide their babies with vital nutrients. ___________________________________________ To learn more, start your googling with these keywords: Mammal: Endothermic vertebrates...
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Why Is My Poop Green?
One of the most commonly googled questions in the world is why feces can be green. Well, Quick Questions has the answer!
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Why Is Autumn More Vivid in New England?
During autumn in the northeastern US, deciduous trees sport a stunning display of yellows, oranges, and reds. But in some places, like Europe, autumn tends to look much more yellow. So why is it that only certain parts of the world get...
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Meet the Worlds Worst Carnivore the Kinkajou
When you think of a wild carnivore, you might imagine a lion felling a wildebeest, but let us introduce you to the kinkajou, a tree-dwelling creature that uses its adaptations to prey on… fruit, mostly.
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How to Eat When You Don't Have a Mouth: Lessons From 5 Animals
Not all animals have a mouth, or even need one to eat! These different feeding strategies can teach us a lot about our ancestors and how they went from not needing a mouth at all to only eating with one.
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How a Bee Becomes Queen
Royal jelly! For bees, it’s what makes all the difference between a queen and a worker.
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These Chimps Treat Each Other’s Wounds. With Bugs
Chimpanzees in Gabon have been observed using bugs as a possible antiseptic, but what's more surprising is that they're applying this remedy to one another in what may be a form of chimpanzee health care.
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Blood Vessels, part 1 - Form and Function: Crash Course A&P
Now that we've discussed blood, we're beginning our look at how it gets around your body. Today Hank explains your blood vessels and their basic three-layer structure of your blood vessels. We're also going over how those structures...
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The First Conservation Efforts Protected… Poop?!
The idea of conservation might seem like a thing that’s only popped up in the last century or so, but organized efforts to conserve resources that directly benefit humans go back centuries!
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Does Microwaving Food Destroy Its Vitamins?
Many people avoid using microwave ovens, fearing how it changes the molecular structure of your food, but studies have some evidence that may surprise you.
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Why Bacteria Don't Outweigh the Earth
Given just a little time, bacteria could outgrow earth, so what's stopping them?
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What Happens If You Fuse All Your Chromosomes? | SciShow News
Two separate groups of biologists reported fusing entire sets of Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosomes together, and surprisingly, the actual number of chromosomes might not be as important as we thought.