Some plants “hear” through flowers. A study found petals vibrated in response to recordings of a bee’s wingbeats, leading plants to sweeten their nectar.
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It's the end of the gene as we know it
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The world’s oldest woman was 122 when she died. A researcher believes that her daughter assumed her identity in the 1930s to avoid inheritance taxes.
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Thirty-five years ago, Isaac Asimov was asked by the Star to predict the world of 2019. Here is what he wrote.
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The mad scramble to claim the world's most coveted meteorite
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How do you feel what you can't touch? Scientists crack the nerve code.
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Why smart people are vulnerable to putting tribe before truth
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A break in the quest for the quantum speed limit
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A break in the quest for the quantum speed limit
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At Yale, we conducted an experiment to turn conservatives into liberals. The results say a lot about our political divisions.
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Is science stagnant? Despite vast increases in the time and money spent on research, scientific progress is barely keeping pace with the past
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Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’
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The genius neuroscientist who might hold the key to true AI
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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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