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Your Cat Thinks You're Cool We tend to see housecats as aloof and independent, mostly preferring to engage in their own kitty business. But that assumption may be littered with error. Because a new study finds that, given a choice, Fluffy would proba

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Spiders Gobble Gargantuan Numbers of Tiny Prey By now, you may have heard about a study that came out a couple of weeks ago about spiders. The study got a lot of attention because coverage of the research often focused on the idea that spiders could

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New Map Knows Noise It's harder and harder to find peace and, especially, quiet. Just ask a field researcher deep in the wilderness. Even in the most remote parts of Alaska the sound of a jet crossing overhead is all too common. 寻求安宁越来越难

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Fecal Transplanters Fish Out Key Ingredient These days, antibiotics are no silver bullet. In fact, if you get them in the hospital, you may end up with an additional infection. Like the bug Clostridium difficile, or C. diffwhich infects more than 300

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Wild Songbirds Can Pick Up New Tunes Only a few kinds of animals are known to learn their vocalizations from listening to others. Us, of course. Elephants. Bats. Cetaceanswhales and dolphins. Pinnipedswalruses, seals and sea lions. And parrots, hummi

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Solar Eclipse Was Buzzkill for Bees Last summer's total solar eclipse sliced right through Columbia, Missouri. It was remarkable. As a biologist I generally reserve that word 'remarkable' for biological phenomena.Candace Galen is based at the Univers

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Health Care Let Neandertals Punch above Their Weight Health care isn't just a benefit of the modern human age. It goes way back. All the way, even, to the Neandertals.We imagine they would have been cleaning wounds, dressing wounds. Penny Spikins, a

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Tally up all your 'regular spots'places you visit on a weekly basis like restaurants, markets, parks. And what do you get? A new study says that most of us limit our hangouts to some 25 places.So every time we adopt a new place, we abandon another on

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Asocial Octopuses Become Cuddly on MDMA When humans take the drug MDMAbest known as ecstasythey feel a deeper connection to othersemotionally and physically. Because MDMA affects serotonin, a nervous system chemical. Serotonin is one of the oldest ne

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Economics Nobel Highlights Climate Action Necessity The first thing is that people have to come to grips with the difficulties we face. I think the scientists have and many of the people have, but the governments have to.Yale Universitys William Nord

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For Halloween, Consider the Chocolate Midge As you unwrap a Halloween candy or two, it's worth paying your respects to the real reason for many of the treats: a tiny fly whose trick is to make chocolate possible. They're all in the family Ceratopogon

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Bones and Stones: Cemetery Geology A tour of Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, N.Y., focuses on the geology of the landscape and the mausoleums. 参观纽约布朗克斯区的伍德劳恩公墓,他的研究重点是当地的地质景观和陵墓。

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Highway Crossings Protect Migrating Pronghorns--and Motorists Ever hear of the pronghorn antelope in the American west? Well, its not really an antelopeits actually more closely related to giraffes than to true antelopes. And the last known migration

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Antifreeze Surface Fights Ice with Ice Every year, 20 million tons of salt are dumped on roads and highways across the U.S. to eliminate ice. And airlines spray up to 1,000 gallons of antifreeze on any one plane to de-ice it. But now scientists have

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Sharks aren't typically thought of as vegetarians. Or even omnivores. But about 10 years ago, scientists documented a dainty relative of the hammerhead shark, known as a bonnethead shark, consuming copious amounts of seagrass. 锤头鲨通常不被认为

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Dolphins Dumb Down Calls to Compete with Ship Noise The oceans are getting louder. And coastal areas are some of the noisiest, as in this underwater recording, captured 17 miles off the coast of Ocean City, Maryland. 海洋的声音越来越大。在这

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Bacteria Might Share the Blame for Eczema 皮肤湿疹可能是细菌惹的祸 Your skinlike many other parts of your bodyis crawling with microscopic critters. It's a microbial zoo in a sense. Heidi Kong, a dermatology researcher at the National Ins

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Franklin's Lightning Rod Served Political Ends 富兰克林发明的避雷针竟有政治色彩? Besides helping to create the United States of America, Benjamin Franklin of course invented the lightning rod. Which sits atop buildings and protects

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Beer Marinade Cuts Grilling Carcinogens 健康吃烧烤的秘诀来点啤酒 Grill masters already know that a cold brew is a fine companion at the barbecue. So here's some science to toast tomarinating meat in beer actually cuts the number of potent

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Heat Will Hit America's Poorest Worst 退出巴黎协议?伤害的可是美国穷人 In President Trump's June 1st speech withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accord, he claimed the climate agreement was costing American workers. In a whole

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