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It's white. It's weird. It looks like a bowl of noodles turned upside down underwater. What is it?
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Beer's essential ingredient, yeast, has a fascinating evolutionary story that begins in a cave more than 500 years ago.
#beer#ales#lager#evolution of beer#yeast#saaz#frohberg#saccharomyces#cerevisiae#eubayanus#alcohol#human nature
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Heroin is a fast-acting opiate drugs, and addiction to it is incredibly hard to overcome, experts say. Here are the facts about heroin.
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Australia's Adele Island appears tranquil from space, but this sandy spit is the site of efforts to eradicate an invasive rat population that devastates seabird populations.
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Wasps can do a lot more than ruin a summer picnic.
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A Mayan tablet unearthed in an ancient jungle city in Guatemala may shed light on the political upheavals that shook the Mayan civilization 1,600 years ago.
#tikal#teotihuacan#mayan calendar#Mayan civilization#preclassic period#mesoamerica#guatemala#central america archeology
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The fossilized remains of an ancient marine reptile with an extremely long neck and paddlelike appendages were recently uncovered in an unlikely place: the side of a cliff in Alaska.
#ancient reptile#dinosaur#plesiosaur#elasmosaur#paleontology#ancient vertebrate#marine life#live science#animals#history
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The winning photos from a recent ecology photo contest prove that Mother Nature is always ready for her close-up.
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Money from sports-hunting permits can fund protected parks that shelter wildlife and engage local communities in animal protection, but does paying such exorbitant fees actually help or hurt wildlife conservation?
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An emerging infectious fungus that causes salamanders to die in droves could soon land on North American shores, scientists warn.
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Last month, Japanese auto manufacturer Lexus unveiled its newest product, and it's not another luxury SUV. It's a hoverboard.
#hoverboards#maglev#magnetic levitation#physics of hoverboards#future tech#hoverboard tech#lexus hoverboard#innovation
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Can perky penguins survive as the oceans grow crowded?
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Homo floresiensis, a diminutive hominin dubbed the hobbit, lived about 17,000 years ago on a remote Indonesian island.
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Million-Dollar Find: Shipwreck's Golden Treasure Includes Very Rare Coin
$1 million worth of gold coins and chains were found by treasure hunters off of the Florida coast. Included in the haul was a very rare Spanish coin titled the “Tricentennial Royal”
Read more: http://www.livescience.com/51679-shipwreck-treasure-hunters-gold-coins.html?cmpid=550995
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New study suggests that some vaccines may cause viruses to eventually evolve into deadlier forms.
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Leprosy is often thought to be an ancient disease, but leprosy-causing bacteria continue to infect people in the southern United States, including in Florida, where nine people have been diagnosed with the disease so far this year.
#leprosy#armadillos#zoonotic diseases#Hansens Disease#leprosy in united states#what causes leprosy#leprosy treatments
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A prehistoric disaster, possibly an epidemic, may be responsible for the remains of nearly 100 bodies found stuffed into a 5,000-year-old house in northeast China.
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