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When applied to a global population, the vegan diet wastes available land that could otherwise feed more people.

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When applied to a global population, the vegan diet wastes available land that could otherwise feed more people.

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Strategy appears to be an unusual way to get nutrients

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Strategy appears to be an unusual way to get nutrients

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If you’ve ever fantasized about discovering a long-lost identical twin, a newly updated app could help.

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Kyle Mulinder does. As he kayaked in New Zealand, the fateful moment was captured on video.

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Arecibo Observatory is Earth's first line of defense against asteroids. It's still recovering from Hurricane Maria.

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Two scientists drugged some cephalopods and were surprised to find that their reactions to MDMA were similar to those of humans, despite massive evolutionary differences.

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“Gummy squirrels,” single-celled organisms the size of softballs and strange worms thrive in a Pacific Ocean zone some considered an underwater desert.

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Is code, as an artificial language, subject to the same regulations as natural language? A landmark legal settlement is bringing up the question yet again.

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"Our bodies are translucent to a big magnetic field, gamma rays, x-rays. We’re also translucent to low red light. Red light is a lot cheaper than a two-ton magnet—or x-rays or gamma rays,” optical physics expert Mary Lou Jepsen tells Paula Apsell and the Science Media Awards & Summit audience, adding that we can use red light to find tumors. "But in order to find the tumors in our bodies, we need to de-scatter the light. That’s what I now realized is possible…using holography."

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Two neural systems record traumatic memories, meaning they can be remembered in both conscious and unconscious ways.

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Officials were stunned by the amount of antibiotics the puppies had been given.

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Scientists demonstrate that a "gene drive" can rapidly spread a genetic mutation through a species, perhaps providing a potent new weapon against malaria. But there are plenty of skeptics.

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Witness organ transplants as they unfold, and meet patients awaiting lifesaving donations.