In a surgery worthy of the most convoluted Grey’s Anatomy plot, surgeons at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco completed two-day, six-way kidney transplant late last week.
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Only days after the eruption ended, geologists have ventured into the crater of Holuhraun in Iceland.
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Colorado's Department of Revenue just released its data from the first year of legalized recreational use.
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NASA’s Earth-observing satellites get the dubious honor of staring at us all day. Now, this video of the fleet zipping around the planet is just mesmerizing enough to make us want to do the same.
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The most recent trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron shows the heroes jumping from a jeep. How fast were they moving?
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The seemingly unremarkable aluminum can is actually a marvel of modern manufacturing. It is, in fact, a glorious thing.
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s flashiest city, is fringed with expansive sandy beaches, accentuated by towering mountains, and marked by some of the country’s most opulent neighborhoods. And yet, the sprawling favelas nestled between these showpieces remain an inextricable part of the city’s identity, highlighting a painful heritage of social exclusion and under-delivered economic promises. In […]
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When the U.S. Embassy in Beijing started tweeting data from an air-quality monitor, no one could have anticipated its far-reaching consequences.
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Maybe if we start training robots to save people’s lives now, some of them will collaborate with the post-Skynet human resistance later.
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A brain-computer interface lets a quadriplegic woman pilot an F-35 flight simulator with the power of her mind alone.
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Toyota is making a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle. This might be a silly idea unless you already have hydrogen as a by product of nuclear fusion.
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In the future, planetary exploration robots will be tied together with twine.
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Fast food giant McDonald's volunteers to buy only chicken raised without routine antibiotic use, a move likely to shake up both the food industry and agriculture.
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Subatomic particles—photons, let’s say, or electrons—sometimes also act like waves. And waves sometimes act like subatomic particles. It’s weird. It’s also one of the fundamental tenets of quantum physics…and now, for the first time, scientists have taken a picture of that duality at work. Other experiments have confirmed this two-faced behavior. As far back as […]
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A camera has been developed to show photographs of snowflakes in freefall.
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Health care workers who caught Ebola while treating its victims in the US and in Africa continue to struggle with poor health and the stigma of the disease.
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A baby wooly rhino was found in the Siberian ice by two Russian hunters.
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Perhaps the most contentious title out there is “World’s Greatest Mom.” My mother probably thinks she is, but so too does her mother, and I think they could both make pretty strong cases. But the sacrifices that human moms make pale in comparison to what’s going on in nature. There’s a bug, for instance, whose […]
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Not since Monica Lewinsky was a White House intern has one blue dress been the source of so much consternation. (And yes, it’s blue.) The fact that a single image could polarize the entire Internet into two aggressive camps is, let’s face it, just another Thursday. But for the past half-day, people across social media […]
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On a blog post at PLOS, the tropical disease expert Peter Hotez and postdoctoral fellow Jennifer Herricks take a run through the data on the biggest killers of children around the world in 2013, part of a new dataset from Global Burden of Disease study published in the January Lancet. The main one is malaria, […]
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