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The tick's salivary proteins change daily, so if a victim produces antibodies against today's saliva, they're useless a few days later.
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Recycling plastic is tricky business, and many plastics are better off as garbage. Visit Discover Magazine to read this article and other exclusive science and technology news stories.
Jeffrey
Jeffrey
unintended consequences, I'll wager
Terry
Terry
nothing is perfect..just like nuclear energy
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Discover Magazine As we approach the the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing, we bring you a gallery of ten great views, and memories, from the moon.

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Forty years after the first moon landing, the 24 men who've been there open up about the details of their photos and experiences.
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Antiscience | Via my evil twin Richard Wiseman comes one of the best color optical illusions I have ever seen. The original was apparently posted on Buzzhunt Akiyoshi Kitaoka
Nate
Nate
Pretty and Facinating.
Kim
Kim
Josef Albers would love this one ....
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Each stab outward into space gives us a chance to image some new part of our cosmic neighborhood, from Earth to water on Mars to the strange moons of Jupiter and Saturn.
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Discover Magazine Weird Science Roundup: Wallabies on Drugs, Microsoft Lawsuits, and Predatory Nymphs http://bit.ly/HpuaG

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Blog Roundup | • Humans aren't the only ones who can feel the narcotic effects of opium; wallabies can, too. In fact, farmers in Australia have reported that the animals ge
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Mind & Brain | When a person pick up a rake or a croquet mallet or any other tool, their mental image of their body expands subtly, according to a new study. To move our bodie
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Pompeii, Santorini, Pinatubo—a journey through the eruptions that shook the world.
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Physics & Math. ’Nuff Said. | There's something fishy going on with the vote counts from Iran's recent election, according to two political scientists from Columbia University. In fact, they
Elsie
Elsie
Imagine....an election rigged?????
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Technology Attacks! | It looks like Oompa Loompas have been replaced by iPhones. A San Francisco-based 20,000 square-foot-factory began operating this month, becoming the first cho
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Living World | After 120,000 years of slumbering in a Greenland glacier beneath almost two miles of ice, an ultra-small bacteria has been resurrected by the patient efforts of
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Discover Magazine How the heck did Obama catch that fly? The science behind the feat. http://discovermagazine.com/2009/jun/18-the-science-of-obamas-fly-swatting/

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A cheaper, gentler alternative to IVF may bring hope to infertile couples. Visit Discover Magazine to read this article and other exclusive science and technology news stories.
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Environment | The seeds that twirl down from maple trees every spring can fly as far as a mile, with each wing-shaped seed spinning like a whirligig on the air. Studies have
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Uncategorized | Is our universe just one of many parallel worlds? Do these universes operate under different laws of physics? Are we actually living inside a computer simulatio
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Sex & Mating | In the past, an expectant mother who wanted to know the gender of her unborn baby had to wait for a sonogram 20 weeks into her pregnancy. But now an at-home te
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The Wide (& Strange) World of Animals | Buffalo might have been driven almost to extinction by overeager Americans, but now we have a chance to redeem ourselves—by genetically engineering new ones.
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Space & Aliens Therefrom | The folks at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute, or SETI, in Mountain View, Calif., want to make sure we earthlings are prepared for a conve
Tommy
Tommy
Hypothetically speaking, If we place intelligent life into 2 basic categories, the kind that don't have the ability to find us, and the type that do have the ability to find us, we can see that the one that "can't" find us is really not a threat...their abilities are limited for the time being. The one that can find us...well...they either have or... Read More have not already done so. If they have then they are not a threat because it would take either "benevolence" or “fear” (aka lack of confidence) to resist such an opportunity. Meaning they are watching to get a game plan for the game day first encounter - aggressive or friendly) Either way, If they haven't found us, then we need to find them first (scout) so that we "know" more about them to make our diplomatic decision. For that, the best policy for dealing with intelligent life is respect and the benefit of the doubt. Second best is to raise our guard just as fast as we lower it. Now offer me job with SETI and I'll take it.
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Discover Magazine holy crops! Pope backs genetically modified food as a possible solution for world hunger. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/06/04/holy-crops-pope-backs-genetically-modified-foods/

Tommy
Tommy
whoa...now that's progressive
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Food, Nutrition, & More Food | In case the shock value from Super Size Me is starting to wear off, here's an excerpt from the abstract of a paper in the Annals of Diagnostic Pathology. It was
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Food, Nutrition, & More Food | A recent development in food science may offer solace for dieters who are fed up, so to speak, with the tried-and-true eat-less, move-more mantra: Scientists sa
Henry
Henry
The more links the better, I say. I could do with fewer thumbnails of fat stomachs.
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Point taken...no more thumbnails of blubbery, hairy stomachs in the future. :)
Amy
Amy
The world thanks you.
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Discover Magazine A new use for Twitter: Finding out if psychics exist...?

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Technology Attacks! | Twitter isn’t just the hippest new way to get gossip, headlines, and nosy details of your friends’ lives. It’s helping people whine, embarrass themselves
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Blog Roundup | • Forget Graceland: If you’re in Huntsville, Ala., be sure to visit the graves of spacemonkeys Able and Baker, the first monkeys to survive a space flight.
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Pollution Solutions (& Disasters) | You might’ve heard that the U.S. Navy has been purposely sinking old ships to make homes for fish—and that research shows this technique could be harmful to
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Pollution Solutions (& Disasters) | No, he’s not Supercat, but apparently a fuzzy feline in the southwest Chinese city of Chongqing began sprouting triangular, fur-covered wings out of his back
Elizabeth
Elizabeth
The Wings look more like Gian cat ears. So maye it is the cat's Twin that never was formed....
Colleen
Colleen
Maybe its a BatCat with amazing hearing and ears that are also wings!!! Or the new Hello Kitty....
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Discover Magazine A mutation of the "happy hour" gene can boost your alcohol tolerance - and predispose you to alcoholism.

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Diseases, Injuries, & Other Ailments | If you can drink your friends under the table, you may have your genes to thank. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have for the first
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Discover Magazine A cancer patient loses his fingerprints and becomes a possible terror suspect, thanks to his cancer treatment.

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Diseases, Injuries, & Other Ailments | A Singaporean man trying to enter the U.S. was detained by TSA officials for four hours as a possible security threat, all because he had no fingerprints. Turns
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Discover Magazine Anyone up for sliders? A breed of "minicows" are becoming increasingly popular as feed prices continue to rise.

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Food, Nutrition, & More Food | The rocky economy has led some beef ranches to downsize not just their acreage, but the cows themselves. Minicows, which are shorter and more compact than more
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Discover Magazine The next big step in cancer treatment might be small enough to balance on a grain of salt, thanks to a miniscule robot that can crawl through your veins.

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Diseases, Injuries, & Other Ailments | The next big step in cancer treatment might be small enough to balance on a grain of salt.Researchers at the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa have develo
Tamara
Tamara
Ew! Oh my gosh. I don't think I want that crawling through my veins! Ouchie.
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Discover Magazine Ever wonder what the cities of tomorrow might look like? Floating cities and crops grown several stories in the air aren't science fiction - they're the future, some architects say.

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Floating cities. A building with a million residents. An oil rig turned into a tourist getaway. Some architects are dreaming of a wild green revolution.
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Discover Magazine Goats = Victims of Wind Turbines in Taiwan? http://is.gd/C9Dd

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Diseases, Injuries, & Other Ailments | Despite their energy-saving efforts, wind farms have a bad rap for killing birds. And now there may be a bigger problem: The noise from turbines could be killin
Teresa
Teresa
It's plausible. I've heard of ewes dropping their lamb prematurely just because they were startled or under stress. I can't imagine goats are much different. I know I feel like I'm being driven mad and become agitated when I have a continuous loud noise around me. I've also heard of unwary humans being sucked up into the turbines...but don't ... Read Moreknow if that's just an urban legend or not. I've seen the big wind farms down near Palm Desert...those things can really pick up speed quickly when the air flow is just right.