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Why would you take poison as medicine?
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Can you really take poison as medicine? Learn about both ancient and cutting-edge ways that poison acts as medicine.
Would a fat tax save lives?
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Fat tax offers another way to fight obesity by raising the price of fatty and unhealthy foods. Learn more about the fat tax and how it can save lives.
NOAA's Argo Program Has Been Observing the Oceans for Two Decades
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NOAA's Argo program distributes floating observatories across the globe. Why? They collect data about the world's oceans that is critical to understanding the planet.
How Women Work
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If you believe what you see on TV, women are inscrutable, conniving, hysterical and apt to change their minds without reason or warning.
Effect of Stress on the Brain
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The effects of stress on the brain can be dangerous to your overall health. Learn more about effect of stress on the brain from Discovery Health.
Squirrels Can Be Left- or Right-handed
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A study at the University of Exeter in January 2020 found that squirrels that strongly favored a paw - whether right or left - perform less well at learning tasks. Ah ... OK. So. Many. Questions.
Scientists Warn Climate Change Is Suffocating the World's Oceans
Climate change may be melting glaciers, but it's also reducing the oxygen of the world's oceans. Without oxygen, many marine organisms may no longer be able to survive.
Spanking Has Declined Sharply in the U.S. in Last 25 Years, Study Finds
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Parents in the U.S. are spanking their kids much less often than they did in the past. A study looked at the decline between 1993 and 2017.
Why Scorpions Glow Under Black Light
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There are lots of theories. Maybe fluorescence helps them find each other in the dark?
Squirrels Can Be Left- or Right-handed
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HowStuffWorks looks at whether strongly lateralized squirrels are less good at learning.