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We know what you鈥檙e thinking: Scientists find a way to read minds

Scientists have used brain scanners to detect and reconstruct the faces that people are thinking of, a scientific achievement that could someday lead to a dream-recorder.

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Giant virus resurrected from permafrost after 30,000 years

A mysterious giant virus buried for 30,000 years in Siberian permafrost has been resurrected.

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Strange state of matter found in chicken eye

Never before seen in biology, astate of matter called "disordered hyperuniformity" has been discovered in the eye of a chicken

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Why do we itch? Scientists seek to solve the maddening mystery

The sensation of feeling itchy is pretty universal, and yet scientists still don't completely understand the complex processes that give us the urge to scratch.

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'Scientific American' draws heat over 鈥榰rban whore鈥� blog post

A brouhaha blew up on the blogosphere after the editor in chief of leading science publication Scientific American removed a shocking entry from one biologist-blogger.

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2013 'Golden Goose' awards honor strange science

Politicians have their pick of strange-sounding studies when they want to call for cuts to science spending

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World's oldest human tumor found in Neanderthal bone

The oldest human tumor ever found by more than 100,000 years has been discovered in the rib of a Neanderthal.

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Glow-in-the-dark cockroach among top 10 new species

A glowing cockroach, a monkey with a blue behind and a meat-eating sponge snagged spots on a list of top 10 new species named in 2012, scientists announced Thursday.

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Vampire squid are sea's garbage disposals

Despite their name, vampire squid are not deep-sea bloodsuckers. In fact, new research finds these mysterious creatures are garbage disposals of the ocean.

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A report about reports about reports? Yep, at this year鈥檚 Ig Nobel awards

A U.S. government agency has earned a literature prize for issuing a report about reports about reports -- and concluding that a new report ought to be prepared to sum it all up.

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'The Next MacGyver' competition aims to encourage more women to pursue STEM

Back when she was growing up, Veronica Eliasson used to be rooted in front of her family鈥檚 television watching 鈥淢acGyver鈥� with her younger brother. The long-running action-adventure series followed the exploits of an American secret agent who came up with inventive solutions to difficult problems by engineering tools out of everyday things.聽 Think objects like duct tape, for instance. The show had worldwide appeal, and for the young Eliasson, whose father always told her she should become an engineer, it opened her eyes to the fact that science could be fun 鈥� and exciting.

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Research shows left-handed people make less money

A new study out of Harvard says left-handed people are more likely to work in manual labor and make less money than their right-handed peers. 聽

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'Forgotten' brain region rediscovered a century later

A major pathway of the human brain involved in visual perception, attention and movement and overlooked by many researchers for more than a century is finally getting its moment in the sun

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Spooky! Human brain waves control mouse genes

Human thoughts can be used to turn on genes in mice, new research suggests

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What happens to a dead body in the ocean?

When a dead body decomposes in the ocean, scientists know little about what happens to it.

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GlassesOff app claims to eliminate need for reading glasses

Like death and taxes, reading glasses are almost inevitable, caused by the aging of your eye known as presbyopia. Fortunately, there may be a way to correct it.

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Deformed, pointy skull from Dark Ages unearthed in France

The skeleton of an ancient aristocratic woman whose head was warped into a deformed, pointy shape has been unearthed in a necropolis in France.

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Zombie neuroscience: Inside the brains of the walking dead

The rotting flesh, the shuffling walk, the unintelligible groans it's not hard to spot a zombie at a glance even among the most gruesome of Halloween monsters.

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850 snakes found at New York animal control officer's house

Authorities in New York say they've found hundreds of snakes including two 6-foot Burmese pythons at an animal control officer's house.

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Lego releases first female scientist

Wearing glasses and a lab coat, and holding out two Erlenmeyer flasks, Professor C. Bodin (as her nametag reads) is Lego's first female scientist.

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Let's make this perfectly clear: 'Stupendous' see-through mouse brains a new research tool

Talk about clearing your head: Stanford University scientists have found a way to make see-through mouse brains.

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Double-headed shark fetus netted by fisherman

When a fisherman caught a bull shark recently off the Florida Keys, he came across an unlikely surprise: One of the shark's live fetuses had two heads.

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Sea slugs mate with throwaway penis

A bizarre, hermaphrodite sea slug may give new meaning to the word "quickie." The nudibranch uses a disposable penis to have sex more frequently, according to a new study

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Your DNA can store information from a million CDs, researchers say

It can store the information from a million CDs in a space no bigger than your little finger, and could keep it safe for centuries.

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The science behind our strange, spooky dreams

The realm of sleep and dreams has long been associated with strangeness: omens or symbols, unconscious impulses and fears.

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The real question: who didn't have sex with neanderthals?

The only modern humans whose ancestors did not interbreed with Neanderthals are apparently sub-Saharan Africans, researchers say.

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'Jurassic Park' may be impossible, scientists decide

Researchers may never be able to extract 80-million-year-old dino DNA to bring a T. rex back to life, but a new study suggests DNA can survive in fossils longer than believed.

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Einstein's brain is now an interactive iPad app

The brain that revolutionized physics now can be downloaded as an app for $9.99. But it won't help you win at Angry Birds.

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Newly discovered wasp named after Boston Bruins goalie Rask

There's a new buzz surrounding Boston Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask.

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Magic mushrooms create a hyperconnected brain

Magic mushrooms may give users trippy experiences by creating a hyperconnected brain.

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DNA testing reportedly reveals identity of Jack the Ripper

A self-described "armchair detective" and a Finnish molecular biologist have claimed to have discovered the identity of the serial killer known as Jack the Ripper, who brutally murdered at least five prostitutes in the East End of London in the autumn of 1888.聽