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Big Question: Why Does Scratching Make You Itch More?

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He Drew the Sun for 40 Years, But Now His Telescope Is Dying

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Three Ways to Make a Rocket From a Bottle (Bonus: GIFs!)

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Tesla’s Electric Cars Aren’t as Green as You Might Think

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The FDA Just Opened Up Abortion Pill Access. Next Up: Webcam Prescriptions

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Preventive Treatment Like Truvada Won’t Stop HIV. Only a Vaccine Can

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Science Education Is Woefully Uncreative. That Has to Change

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Alaska, Volcanoes

Alaska’s Volcano Cools Down, While a Chilean One Heats Up

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Cuba established an international medical school in 1999, and since then over 100 Americans have attended.

Why Some Students Are Ditching America for Medical School in Cuba

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No telescopes or cameras captured the incident that sent JAXA's Hitomi satellite spinning out of control. But tracking data could help scientists nail down an explanation.

Space Detectives Are Figuring Out What Borked Japan’s Hitomi Satellite

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Baby Yeah, Science Baby, Watches

Absurd Creatures | The Pygmy Seahorse Is Pretty Much the Where’s Waldo of the Sea

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Fish Hop, Weirder Fish, Fish Waddles, Swim Weirder

Some Fish Swim. Weirder Fish Hop. This Fish ​Waddles

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No telescopes or cameras captured the incident that sent JAXA's Hitomi satellite spinning out of control. But tracking data could help scientists nail down an explanation.

Space Detectives Are Figuring Out What Borked Japan’s Hitomi Satellite

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Alaska, Nature Science, Lyra S Pins

Pavlof’s Unexpected Eruption in Alaska Spews Ash 20,000 Feet High

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Technology, Maps

The Nameless Mouse Behind the Largest-Ever Neural Network

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Google Pumps $2B Into Africas Biggest Wind Power Project - Google investing $2 billion in Africa's largest wind power project two years after it invested $12 million in the continent's largest solar power project. The post Google Pumps $2B Into Africas Biggest Wind Power Project appeared first on WIRED.

Your State Could Lose Big Bucks by Stalling on Clean Energy

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Craig Venter's syn3.0 cells contain the minimum number of genes needed for life (TOM DEERINCK AND MARK ELLISMAN)

The Mystery of the Minimal Cell, Craig Venter’s New Synthetic Life Form

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The classic quantum mechanics problem is a particle in a 1-D box. Here is a numerical solution to that problem.

You Can Solve Quantum Mechanics’ Classic Particle in a Box Problem With Code

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ABSURD CREATURES: THE MYSTERY OF THE TINIEST, BEST-DRESSED SEAHORSE IN THE SEA

Absurd Creatures: The Mystery of the Tiniest, Best-Dressed Seahorse in the Sea

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Are There Any Habitable Exoplanets That Can Hear Us? - Today NASA announced the discovery of the most Earth-like exoplanet ever. Meh. The post Are There Any Habitable Exoplanets That Can Hear Us? appeared first on WIRED.

NASA’s New Top Astrobiologist Is Spelunking for Alien Life on Earth

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Spaces, Technology, Argentina, Volcanoes

Annotated Volcanoes: Let’s Explore Argentina’s Ancient Cerro el Condor … From Space!

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Brooke Flammang is used to seeing fish that walk. But this blind, waterfall-climbing cavefish is something else altogether.

This fish walks up waterfalls, and that isn't even the weirdest thing about it

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Subway stations and trains can magnify the effects of a bomb blast

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For BuzzFeed Diversity Remains an Ongoing Priority - For BuzzFeed diversity remains a priority. So much like a major tech company it shared its latest diversity numbers today. The post For BuzzFeed Diversity Remains an Ongoing Priority appeared first on WIRED.

Science Needs to Learn How to Fail So It Can Succeed

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Spider Farming Is No Fun. Make Yeast Do the Work

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