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Health & Medicine
Sleeping Soundly for a Longer Life
People who have trouble falling or staying asleep may be more likely to die sooner from natural causes compared to those who sleep well.
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Health & Medicine
Tapeworms and drug delivery
Scientists are learning from tapeworms how to develop more effective medicines.
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Animals
Better tools for techno crows
Certain crows can make tools and even refine their designs.
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Planets
A planet’s slim-fast plan
A planet orbiting very close to its sun can quickly lose weight.
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Animals
Fish nests with pizzazz
Fish known as three-spined sticklebacks go gaga over decorating their nests.
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Animals
Lucky survival for black cats
A cat's black color may date back to a mutation that also protected the felines from diseases a long time ago.
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Space
Phantom Energy and the Big Rip
Weird stuff called dark energy could push the universe toward a runaway expansion and ultimate demise about 21 billion years from now.
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Space
Black holes that burp
Some black holes in outer space may actually spit out as much material as they suck in.
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Environment
The down side of keeping clean
Chemicals we use to clean and disinfect could be damaging the environment by killing off algae at the food chain's base.
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Environment
Less mixing can affect lake’s ecosystem
Warming a large lake can cut microorganism populations and disturb its food chain.
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Plants
Slower growth, greater warmth
A shift toward slower-growing trees might make Earth's climate warm up even faster.
By Emily Sohn