illustration: silverbackblog.com If you're a fish living in a cave, having eyes isn't going to be particularly useful to you. E...
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Birds use cigarette butts to ward off parasites, but at a cost
source: Wikimedia Commons user Basar. In 2012 Constantino MacÃas Garcia, a scientist working at the National Autonomous University of Me...
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Don't trust Wikipedia when it comes to controversial science topics
That Wikipedia isn't a reliable source isn't exactly news to many of you, but despite its faults it is the most widely used online...
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Don't Use Bar Graphs to Represent Data
Many different datasets can lead to the same bar graph. A recent criticism, published in PLoS Biology , has called into question the use...
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Appendectomies Are Linked With Colon Cancer
Source: Wikimedia Commons Researchers in Taiwan have examined the medical records of a large group of Taiwanese patients and discovered ...
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A New HIV Vaccine that Transforms Cell DNA
HIV-infected T cell. Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute in California have managed to alter the DNA of Rhesus macaques to giv...
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Huge cloud on Titan is cold and Toxic
Photo of Titan taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Closer image of the cloud. The surface of Titan, taken by the Huygens prob...
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Well-preserved fossil identified as new species of ancient Lungfish
3D representation of micro-CT scan data. Now christened as Persephonichthys chthonica – from Persephone, a Greek goddess, daughter o...
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Overstating scientific progress makes people lazy about environmentalism
A paper by Dutch psychologists describes 4 studies that show that depictions in media of scientific progress made in battling climate ch...
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Direct brain-to-brain communication
Sender on the left. Receiver on the right. International scientists have managed to transmit words from one brain in India to another...
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Monkeys get upset with unequal pay
Capuchin monkeys were used in this study. Here is an interesting video that demonstrates so well that animals have a sense of fairness...
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Does your dog understand you're looking for your keys?
Scientists at the University of Portsmouth, UK, wanted to find out exactly that. More precisely to find out if domestic dogs understand hu...
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Monument to Lab Mice
There's a statue in Novosibirsk, Russia that is dedicated to honoring laboratory mice. Around the statue are smaller displays of ...
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Artificial 'biospleen' cleans up blood from viruses/bacteria
Nanobeads attach to E. coli (left) and S. aureus (right). There might be a new futuristic way of fighting viruses and bacteria. I...
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