THINGS MAY APPEAR LARGER THAN THEY SEEM
Digital Camera Captures A Bug's-Eye View
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Insect-inspired device achieves panoramic view and sharp focus at any distance.
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Nature
SO COOL IT'S HOT
Japanese Researchers Coax Fire From Ice
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First attempt to extract methane from frozen hydrates far beneath the ocean shows promise.
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MOTION OF THE OCEAN STILL MATTERS
Bigger Not Always Better For Penis Size
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Study reveals diminishing returns in attractiveness of larger-than-average genitalia.
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YOU GO FIRST
What Happens When You Get Sucked Into A Black Hole?
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POST-MORTEMS
The Death Of The Cherbarkul Meteor
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Why did the Russian meteor explode so spectacularly?
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MIND MELDS
'Psychic' Rats Link Minds Continents Away
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The brains of two rats on different continents have been made to act in tandem. When the first, in Brazil, uses its whiskers to choose between two stimuli, an implant records its brain activity and signals to a similar device in the brain of a rat in the United States.
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OSCARS SHMOSCARS
Long-Lost Continent Found Under Indian Ocean
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The drowned remnants of an ancient microcontinent may lie scattered beneath the waters between Madagascar and India, a new study suggests.
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READ THIS THREE TIMES FAST
Why Tongue Twisters Are So Hard To Say
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Say the word 'rutabaga', and you have just performed a complex dance with many body parts — lips, tongue, jaw and larynx — in a flash of time. But what makes it so difficult to say it again?
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ANGRY FISH
Anti-Anxiety Drug Found In Rivers Makes Fish More Aggressive, Anti-Social
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Tiny amounts of a common anti-anxiety medication — which ends up in wastewater after patients pass it into their urine — significantly alters fish behaviour, according to a new study.
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YOU GOT SICK
When Google Got Flu Wrong
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When influenza hit early and hard in the United States this year, it quietly claimed an unacknowledged victim: one of the cutting-edge techniques being used to monitor the outbreak.
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