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Aliens may be more like us than we think
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INRS to upgrade its tomography and ultrafast dynamic imaging facilities
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Why do some head knocks cause more damage than others?
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Humans don’t use as much brainpower as we like to think
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Tracking mosquitoes with your cellphone
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Little-known fruits contain powerful anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant agents
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Mini-microscopes reveal brain circuitry behind social behavior
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Young bats learn bat ‘dialects’ from their nestmates
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Orphaned elephants’ social lives substantially altered by poaching
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Elderly chromosomes activate genes differently than in the young
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Chromosome organization emerges from 1-D patterns
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How a $10 microchip turns 2-D ultrasound machines to 3-D imaging devices
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Pseudopod protrusions propel amoeboid cells forward: A 3-D swimming model
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Researchers at NYITCOM link Western diet to vascular damage and prediabetes
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Landmark discovery turns marathon of evolution into a sprint
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