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Scientists turned these rats and mice transparent.

Why Scientists Created See-through, Shrunken, Glow-in-the-dark Mice
The uDISCO method renders organic matter transparent and allows researchers to use fluorescent stains to create intricate maps of body systems.
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Geologic evidence for China’s mythical Great Flood, 4,000 years ago.

Geologists Find Evidence of China’s Great Flood
According to legend, Chinese civilization began with a Great Flood, and new findings appear to back up that story.
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Why does time feel like it's zipping by faster the older we get?

Why Does Time Seem to Fly as We Get Older?
Accelerated time travel is not a result of filling our adult lives with grown-up responsibilities and worries.
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Sometimes, science has to weigh in.

5 Times Scientists Tackled Conspiracy Theories, and Won
Some conspiracy theories may be ridiculous, but some lend themselves to serious research. Here are five of the best examples.
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Sailships: Our best shot at reaching the edge of the solar system and beyond.

Riding on a Beam of Light
Sailships may offer our best shot at reaching the edge of the solar system and beyond.
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18-year study finds that neonicotinoid pesticides cause bee populations to collapse.

18-Year Study Links Neonicotinoids to Bee Colony Decline
Neonicotinoids, previously found to harm bees in the laboratory, are shown to cause large declines in some bee populations.
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Step inside the largest outdoor laboratory in America — our national parks.

Science in America's National Parks
A century ago, Congress created the national park system — and ended up preserving some of the best research sites in the world.
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How wookies and orangutans are teaching scientists about the evolution of language.

Talkative Orangutan Shows Scientists How Language Evolved
An orangutan has learned to produce sounds not normally in its vocabulary, hinting at how language emerged in our ancestors.
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We haven't found aliens yet because we're early to the party.

From a Cosmic Perspective, Is Life on Earth Premature?
A new study suggests that present-day life appeared early.
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These snakes change their eyes to defend themselves

Snakes Defend Themselves with Shape-Shifting Eyes - Inkfish
Superman donned glasses to disguise himself and blend in with other people. One snake hides its identity using a similar trick: when threatened, it changes the shape of its pupils. This makes it resemble a much more dangerous animal. The mock viper (Psammodynastes pulverulentus) is mild-mannered, no...
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How spinach plants are detecting bombs.

Spinach: Now a Bomb-Detecting Superfood
By adding fluorescing nanoparticles to spinach plant leaves, researchers have turned a superfood into a useful tool.
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Ask Discover: Are we any closer to understanding how gravity works?

The Root of Gravity
Does recent research bring us any closer to understanding it?
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Black Friday Sale - My Science Shop
Your shopping destination for science and space related products.
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5 serious and not-so-serious studies to put some extra gravy on your Thanksgiving.

Turkey science: our top 5 favorite Thanksgiving-related studies. - Seriously, Science?
To celebrate Thanksgiving, we've compiled a list of scientific articles related to turkey, eating, and even pilgrims.
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Something else to be thankful for on Thanksgiving — and hear us out — error bars.

Thanksgiving - Cosmic Variance
This year we give thanks for a concept that has been particularly useful in recent times: the error bar. (We’ve previously given thanks for the Standard Model Lagrangian, Hubble’s Law, the Spin-Statistics Theorem, conservation of momentum, and effective field theory.) Error bars are a simple and con...
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