What if the placebo effect isn’t a trick?
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Is anti-gravity real? Science is about to find out
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Sociogenomics is opening a new door to eugenics
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A mandarin duck mysteriously appears in Central Park, to birders’ delight
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My grandfather thought he solved a cosmic mystery
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Dinosaurs had birdlike lungs
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Meet the carousing, harmonica-playing Texan who just won a Nobel for his cancer breakthrough
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How an unlikely family history website transformed cold case investigations
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Most White Americans’ DNA can be identified through genealogy databases
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Meet the scientists bringing extinct species back from the dead
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Use of evolution to design molecules nets Nobel Prize in Chemistry for three scientists
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Physicists investigate why matter and antimatter are not mirror images - Does antimatter fall up, or fall down?
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The first “social network” of brains lets three people transmit thoughts to each other’s heads.
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The dangers of DNA testing - In a new study, 74 out of 108 crime laboratories implicated an innocent person in a hypothetical bank robbery
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Scientists identify four personality types
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Top cancer researcher fails to disclose corporate financial ties in major research journals
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European science funders ban grantees from publishing in paywalled journals
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For poorer people in India and many other countries, a computer engineer has found a way to detect breast cancer without radiation
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Dinosaur wars: Scientists behaving badly
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Dude, she’s (exactly twenty-five percent) out of your league
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Quantum physics observed in photosynthesis and could lead the way to greatly improved solar technologies
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The nastiest feud in science - What caused the dinosaur extinction?
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We can change human DNA. We're just not sure which bits.
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How the CIA’s fake vaccination campaign endangers us all
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Ethics questions arise as genetic testing of embryos increases
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Two fungal species—one pathogenic, one benign—are actually the same
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Chinese researchers achieve stunning quantum-entanglement record
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Potential DNA damage from CRISPR has been ‘seriously underestimated,’ study finds
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Albert Einstein's boyhood proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
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Who's afraid of the big bad wolf scientist?
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Anti-vaxxers are targeting a vaccine for a virus deadlier than ebola
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Spiders use Earth's electric field to fly hundreds of miles
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The wood wide web: The world of trees underneath the surface
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Life is a braid in spacetime
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What a Russian smile means - How culture and history make American and Russian smiles different
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This humble Australian bee is helping to disrupt the plastics industry
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The tipping point when minority views take over
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Why rich kids are so good at the marshmallow test
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How do aliens solve climate change? Scientists recently modeled a range of interactions between energy-intensive civilizations and their planets
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Looking for life on a flat Earth: What a burgeoning movement says about science, solace, and how a theory becomes truth
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These stunning 3D models are transforming scientists’ raw data
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US FDA approves first drug designed to prevent migraines
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The number of people who get diseases transmitted by mosquito, tick, and flea bites has more than tripled in the United States in recent years
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The last days of the blue-blood harvest
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Exploring ethical implications of Yale experiment to reanimate dead brain cells
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One space between each sentence, they said. Science just proved them wrong.
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Can you overdose on happiness? The science and philosophy of deep brain stimulation.
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