Discovered: We give up searching when targets are few and far between; studying the urban landscape; science teachers release invasive species into the wild; inside the brains of hoarders.
Discovered: Revisiting an experiment used to disprove free will; creatine helps women batlle depression; dilated eyes show sexual attraction; mothers underestimate the rise of childhood obesity in China.
Discovered: Elephants communicate through "infrasound"; allergies may help prevent brain cancer; playfulness is attractive; 97% of Greenland's surface ice is melting.
Discovered: Caffeine helps Parkinson's sufferers; cancer stem cells drive tumor growth; the features of super intelligent brains; some Peruvians have developed rabies resistance.
Discovered: That athletic tape doesn't do much; sleep trouble isn't just a first world problem; fruit flies on meth die from anorexia; squids detach their own arms to evade predators.
Discovered: Human relative detected in hunter-gatherer DNA; watching the imperial cormorant's deep-sea food dive; endangered whale song recorded; malaria vaccines don't bestow malaria immunity.
Discovered: Wasps store yeast in their guts; one cause of blindness in newborns has been identified; science explains why we love karaoke; and start getting used to droughts.
Discovered: Tanzania might profit from global warming; massive stars suck their partners dry; it's hard to remember things on ecstasy; researching the benefits of barefoot running.
Discovered: Today's pop music is loud and monotonous; termites send their elderly on suicide missions; storms can damage the ozone layer; Monday isn't actually a mood killer.
Discovered: Weird weather informs beliefs about global warming; sight brought to blind mice; encroachment on tropical reserves; the popular anti-depressive Zoloft can prevent fungal infections.
Discovered: Tick bites can lead to red meat allergies; networking gets you farther ahead in the US job market; scientists develop ways to extract CO2 from the atmosphere; too much light at night can cause depression.
Discovered: Polar bears have been around for milions of years; the Big Rip gets moved up; a rat's heart becomes a jellyfish; JFK and LAX, hubs for the spread of infectious disease.
Discovered: Titan shows marks of a river network; a potential black hole in the heart of the Milky Way; poverty can cause mothers to develop anxiety; windows that generate electricity.
Discovered: The Pacific Ocean is polluted with caffeine; Stanford scientists sequence entire sperm genomes; a compound that kills petri-dish HIV; and drinking can prevent kidney cancer.
Discovered: Astronomers find the oldest known spiral galaxy; dolphins are good with numbers; Japan's nuclear disaster will probably result in 130 deaths; and laziness is on par with smoking.
Discovered: The world's lightest material; babies understand more than we thought; even in the womb, identical twins aren't completely identical; superweeds are resistant to RoundUp.
Discovered: Young kids who binge on TV don't become athletes; there's a gender gap in Scandinavian universities; to live longer, eat less; people aren't following their prescriptions.
Discovered: glial cells play a role in memory formation; you can control a computer with your eyes; we've unearthed a long-lost relative; asteroids brought water to Earth.
Discovered: A fish that fishes for mates; coma patients respond well to familiar music; fat that fights fat; and a turtle too round to eat.
Discovered: The Hubble telescope finds a fifth moon circling lowly non-planet Pluto; global warming takes a toll on cows; watching nanoparticles break up blood clots is fun; scorpion venom is actually good for you (sometimes).
It's that time of year again, time to analyze the U.S. Olympics uniforms! Are they faintly laughable, gold-medal ridiculous, or just fine and dandy? We discuss.
Discovered: Scientists debunk the discovery of new life, blame your friends for your weight fluctuations, a citizen science project finds that bees are disappearing from cities, and scientists teach flies to count.
Discovered: What 2,000 years of climate change looks like, just being fat isn't actually unhealthy, a molecule that could make teeth cavity proof, and get ready for R-rated movies just for smoking.
Discovered: Yes, even the iciest place on the planet is warm, Zebra fish are just the best, a very inconvenient way to save a worm's life, and the fastest camera uses its powers for good.
Discovered: Record breaking U.S. droughts, China has more child diabetes than the U.S., things look bad for the coral reef, and a human-like robot eye.
Discovered: An alternative to embryonic stem cells, some fish can handle all that CO2, a photo of an atom's shadow, and the salmon aren't spawning so much anymore.
Discovered: Another health benefit for Botox, teens are still sexting, coffee continues being awesome, and parents are less likely to catch a cold.
Discovered: Maybe, possibly, evidence of life on Mars, spray-on batteries, an extra second of time this weekend, and Britain cleaned up its city rivers.
Discovered: Get ready for the world to end this year, a new kind of old tomato, why some people kick in their sleep, and animals on earth earlier than expected.
Discovered: A better way to make drugs, a "significant" heart risk with low-carb diets, our ancestors ate funny, and a possible medicine maker inside our bodies.
Discovered: An eco-friendly toilet, living together before marriage is a bad idea, once again coffee does good things to our bodies, and Bieber Fever is mental.
Discovered: Exercise reduces breast cancer risk, two classes of wine a day keeps the doctor away, kids have worse allergies than previously thought and it just takes two degrees of warming for bit climate change.
Discovered: A human bird flu pandemic is a real possibility, these flowers could cure depression, alcohol improves your quality of life, and the Arctic climate is in trouble.
Discovered: Mars has tons of water, space's new planets are too close for comfort, elephant seals make good scientists, and fructose (sugar!) could be healthy, after all.
Discovered: The real key to happiness, the penguins don't appreciate the warm weather, smoking causes skin cancer, too, a protein that could regenerates nerves.
Discovered: Antibacterials are making us sick in a different way, thinspiration is scientific, do you e-mail a lot? You might be depressed, and a case for mom blogs.
Discovered: Teen driving laws work, a delicious way to lose weight, cheap drugs aren't always the best kind of drugs, and our oceans can't hold all of our carbon dioxide anymore.
Discovered: BPA's effects will last generations, graphic smoking labels work, don't work out if you're depressed, and breast milk kills HIV.
Discovered: Why your baby is a pot-head, soda isn't making kids fat, here's something that does contribute to obesity, and a cure for Ebola?
Discovered: Blame La Niña for that warm Spring, kids really do send nudie pics to each other, women doctors make a lot less money than their male counterparts, and no ice at the Northeast Passage this year.
Discovered: Humans for certain caused ocean warming, diesel fumes cause cancer, Prometheus style interstellar travel isn't happening anytime soon, personalized e-mails do not work, and scale walls like Spider-Man with this backpack.
Discovered: A surface that is immune to iciness, the health dangers of nano-particles, quit smoking at any age, and low dopamine means high aggression.
Discovered: We don't disconnect when we go on vacation anymore, the kids who get the most allergies, why the uterus doesn't reject a fetus, and a very life-like robot fish.
Discovered: A promising first trial for the Alzheimer's vaccine, the science of cool, gastric bypass really works, and the very first space things.
Discovered: Climate change has already changed some biomes, the healthiest amount of booze, kids need to stop stressing, a delicious way to quit smoking, and an insane cool picture of Venus.
Discovered: Milk's magical diet ingredient, this is your brain right before sex, our planet used to have a giant bug problem and American kids may be fat, but their blood pressure is fine
Discovered: There is such a thing as too much exercise, a new Prostate cancer drug, American heads are getting bigger and bug bombs don't work on bed bugs
Discovered: Our galaxy is on a crash course, get ready for a nasty hurricane season, the poor butterflies, and chocolate is now healthy.
Discovered: Old people don't smell bad, we don't need more aerosol in the air, fewer food choices aren't always better, and fixing a spinal cord injury.
Discovered: Another close-to-Earth asteroid, even the formerly fat are remembered for being fat, and TV only improves the self-esteem of white boys.
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