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Stuffing Your Face With Holiday Cookies Disrupts Your Body Clock, Just Like Mars Time Would

Blue-spectrum light and weird work schedules can easily interfere with our bodies’ master clocks, but did you know that food can, too? All those cookies and pies you’ve been eating this week are going to mess with your slee...
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12 Incredible Works Of Astrophotography By Brad Goldpaint

Brad Goldpaint is one of our absolute favorite photographers–his work has been featured multiple times at NASA, and you may also have seen his work in National Geographic, Discover, Wired, and The Huffington Post. A forme...
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FDA Says Giant, Genetically Modified Salmon Is Environmentally Safe

The AquAdvantage salmon, a genetically modified fish that grows year round and much faster than a natural salmon, has been approved for human consumption for years now (at least in the US). But one consistent hurdle to getting ...
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What Do People In Iran Think About Global Warming? [Infographic]

When the U.S. economy began to plunge in 2008, so did Americans’ belief in climate change–opinion polls showed that the percentage of Americans who thought the climate was changing dropped 14 points, from 71 to 57, ...
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Science Confirms The Obvious: Kids With Allergies Get Bullied

It’s bad enough that they have to avoid milk and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. A new study reveals that kids with allergies also get picked on at lunch. About 8 percent of children in the United States have food all...
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Say Goodbye To Christmas By Watching This Giant Tree Explode

Christmas is over for the year. Wrapped presents have transformed into shreds of paper, and we’re already finalizing New Year’s Eve plans. But do you need some more holiday closure? Then watch this pine tree explode...
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GameSci: The Wii U’s Unlikely Influence

To most of the world, Sega’s Visual Memory Unit has been been dead for the better part of a decade, forgotten as a footnote in the annals of videogame history. It was a memory card, shaped mostly like a Tamagotchi, that s...
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Robot Boy To Be ‘Born’ In 9 Months, And Programmed To Do All His Chores

Where are our mass-produced robot butlers already, the Rosies of our Jetsons families? Still a ways off, unfortunately, but here’s the next best thing: ‘Roboy,’ a child-like service bot that researchers are bi...
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9 Space Pictures That Look Like Santa, Rudolph, And Other Christmas Things

Is that the face of jolly old St. Nick, or a million-mile-wide nebula? The gas and dust of the cosmos often align into very familiar scenes from Earth. We’ve gathered nine space pictures that look just like your favorite ...
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