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We don’t like blurry vision, and we go out of our way to correct it with glasses and contact lenses. But some animals aren’t so fussy. The jumping spider not only tolerates blurry images, it deliberately produces them.
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Depression, anxiety, anger and other negative emotions have been linked to heart disease and heart attacks. But what about the flip side — are positive emotions connected to better heart health?
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This newly created X-ray laser is just unimaginably powerful. It’s a billion times brighter than any previous X-ray source, and it can probe hot dense matter at nearly four million degrees.
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Sometimes Hollywood really does get the science right. And when it does, you probably have real-life scientists like Caltechs Sean Carroll or tech-savvy filmmakers like James Cameron to thank.
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Eighty-five years and counting…
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For the first time researchers achieve the “cloaking” of a three-dimensional object to make it invisible as viewed from any angle.
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It is a “myth” that regularly eating fried foods causes heart attacks, researchers have found, as long as you use olive oil or sunflower oil.
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Too little is known about the health and environmental effects of the minuscule substances that are driving a $225 billion market, a National Academy of Sciences committee concluded.
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Two brothers claimed they found a skull that belongs to an animal that has been extinct since 1936.