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Oil drilling in the Gulf is safer, but there is still a cause for worry
A new study by the National Academy of Sciences found that although regulators and industry have reduced some risks associated with deep water exploration...
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Study explores how brain solidifies memories during sleep
A computer model of the brain reveals that, during deep sleep cycles, the hippocampus is teaching the neocortex what it learned during the events...
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Scientists believe there are 20,000,000,000,000,000 ants on earth
Scientists believe that a whopping 20,000,000,000,000,000 (20 quadrillion) ants live on Earth — and that's just a conservative estimate.
The Proceedings of the National Academy...
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