The Loh Down on Science
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Lean Sideways, Conclusion: This Ear Bud's For You
Sandra Tsing Lohs thoughts on the road.
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Lean Sideways, Part 4: The Stresses of Flex Time
Sandra Tsing Loh struggles to find the work/home balance.
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Lean Sideways, Part 3: Gummy Bear Suicide
Sandra Tsing Lohs take on food preparation.
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Lean Sideways, Part 2: Parboiling Mad
Sandra Tsing Lohs unique take on preparing meals.
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Lean Sideways, Part 1: Leaning in, taking a whiff,...
Sandra Tsing Loh...
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Snow Jobs, Part Two: It's All Down Hill From Here
Sandra Tsing Loh goes skiing... kind of.
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Snow Jobs, Part One: Getting Booted
Sandra Tsing Loh has some trouble skiing.
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Hawaii, Part Two: Hawaiian Vacation, Up All Night!
Sandra Tsing Loh learns about Hawaii.
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Hawaii, Part One: Hawaiian Vacation
Sandra Tsing Loh goes to Hawaii... sort of.
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Craveables
Sandra Tsing Lohs few favorite things around the house.
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The Miserables
Sandra Tsing Loh says "Les Miserables" made her family miserable.For almost 30 years, Ive been immune. Ive escaped the epidemic. Its kind of a miracle. After...
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Forest Lawn
Sandra Tsing Loh says you better cry at her funeral.I celebrated my birthday this year with funeralsthree in four days. Thats sometimes how birthdays GO in midlife.I...
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A Very Facebook Birthday
Sandra Tsing Loh on getting virtual birthday wishes.My birthday this year was a non-event. It fell on a MONDAY, in the middle of my attending THREE funerals in four days, on a week...
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Super Bowl Virgins, Part Two: I'm So Raven
Sandra Tsing Loh becomes a Baltimore Raven fan.So, my 10 year old daughter and I decide to watch our first ever Super Bowl, because she felt she needed to be able to talk football in...
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Super Bowl Virgins, Part One: The Kickoff
Sandra Tsing Loh watches a major American sporting event... for the first time.I think my life experience is fairly worldly. I have seen the opera Aida performed LIVE in the Roman...
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Spooky Science
Who ya gonna call?
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Moldy Memories
Easy thought control.
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Out of the Box
When grapes suffer.
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Nana 911
How grandma got her groove back.
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Birds and Butts
They're not just blowing smoke.
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Funny Names
Taking baby steps?
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Dancing with the Doctors
Science, gangnam style?
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Fishy Fashion
Sliding down Paris runways.
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Muggle Magic
Abracadabra explained.
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Almost Touching
Solving pressing problems.
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Leg Up
Are you gellin'?
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Chimp Eye Blind
Hairy hypocrites.
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Coughing Seafood
Gesundheit!
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Plugged In
This one sucks.
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Jet Lagged
The 4,000-foot difference.
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Skin Teeth
The Cheshire catfish.
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Password Protection
An eggcellent strategy.
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Earth Reset
This one's a bit off.
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Mousey Melodies
Making beautiful music together.
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Strange Medicine
The cure sounds worse than the disease.
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Location, Location, Location
Change for the better.
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Brit Invasion
Rampaging rodents.
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Manchurian Worms
Control freaks.
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Beetle Juice
Keeping your cool.
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Bridge Sonics
Repairing the bridges of Madison County?
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Fish Tales
Sandra sings show tunes.
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Improving the Odds
Waiting for the shoe to drop.
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Half Brain
How Flipper stayed chipper.
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Night Lights
Sleap appnea.
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Harmonious Eating
Why we like a little yin with our yang.
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Big Talker
The five most surprising words in Korean.
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Water into Wine
We heard it on the grapevine.
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Dissolving Devices
Sandra breaks it down for you.
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Survival of the Funkiest
The evolution of music.
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Vain Bees
Red wine does it again.
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Desperate Dragons
The reptilian mystique.
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DNA Hard Disk
Sandra talks binary.
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Bat Cave
A safe place to hang out.
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Pollenator Terminator
Just add water.
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Flex-O-Skeleton
Dressing like an astronaut.
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Social Animals
Something to crow about.
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Popeye Power
Where kids can hide their spinach.
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Bionic Bees
They're as sweet as honey.
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Kinky Research
Sandra gets inventive.
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Smart Catheters
Chicken soup for the infected soul?
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Brittle Bones
Human corndogs.
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Levitating Liquids
Breaking bad in the lab?
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Holy Jumping Robots!
This one'll float your boat.
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Coco-Brain
Using fuzzy logic.
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Hello Kitty!
The awwwwww effect.
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No-Bubble Boiling
Cooking with Teflon and Velcro.
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Sticky Feet
This could drive Sandra up the wall.
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Eau de Cilantro
Snooty diners?
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Philosophical Birds
They never forget.
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Psycho Cyclones
Pass the salt!
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Roboctopus
High-tech pranks.
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Talking Tumors
Cutting chatter for better health.
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Pee for Performance
Who remembers this ad?
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I Don't
A new hitch to getting hitched?
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Sugar 'n Space
Sweet dreams are made of this.
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Fat Farm
Encouraging pets to shed.
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Home Sweet Home
Monitoring the future of suburbia.
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The Kelp Connection
Sea otters to the rescue!
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Spice of Life
Pesty puns.
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Shaping Up
Gauging when to say when.
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Opera for Apes
Asia's newest diva.
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Altruists vs. Louts
Overthinking sushi.
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Smoking the Internet
Another tough habit to break.
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Prescription Surfing
Just what the doctor ordered.
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Aging Brains
Science's latest lie detector.
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Coping Classes
Sandra's advice on getting through crises.
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Back Achoo
When greater efficiency is right under your nose.
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Music to My Ears
Sandra reassures despairing parents.
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Cross-Dressing Cuttlefish
Strike a pose! Vogueing under the sea.
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Powdered Earthquakes
Snap, crackle, and pop? We hope not.
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Our Perfect Sun
Why spinning makes you pudgy around the middle.
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Deep Microbes
Taking a mud bath at the Equator.
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Tasteless Tomatoes
How the Twenties are still affecting our markets.
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Better Foundation
Looks great on AND repels bugs.
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Three-Million-Dollar Idea
Sandra explains cutting-edge technology ... sort of.
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The Final Frontier
Space.
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The Perfect Sandwich
Delicious pockets of gas.
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Better Warbling
Higher highs and lower lows.
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Sleep Skills
You can practice every night.
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Family Tree
Barking up an unexpected one.
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Giant Invasion
Give 'em an inch, they'll take eight.
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Bird Brains
Taking memory to new heights.
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Quit Yer Bellyachin'
Reasonable toddlers.
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Water Fight
A Supersoaker thats really super.
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Travel Like a Germ
The reason we need Airborne.
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Routing Disaster
A new kind of K-9 unit.
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Why So Blue?
Feeling blue today?
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Texting Sheep
A device even Q would be proud of.
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Going Overboard
Economists at sea.
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Shatterproof Shrimp
Crustacean Cassius Clays.
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Wonder Windows
UCLAs new film school?
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Crash Test
NASCARs shifting demographic?
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Arousing Distortion
Are distressed animals rocking out?
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Nasal Reboot
Why gunky research blows.
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Why, Y Chromosome?
What happens when the gene pool is too cold.
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Spidermate
When females do a males job.
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Baring It
A controversy laid at your feet.
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Loud Music
Taking lessons from Spinal Tap.
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Sandcastle Summer School
Keeping seashells where they belong.
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A Tip on Tips
What happens when diners see red.
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Purring Pachyderms
How to scratch a really big itch.
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Between the Drops
Shedding light on bad weather.
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Three Blind Mice
Theyll never run after the farmers wife again.
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Home-Wrecking Furniture
Some surprising couples counseling.
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Vitamin Pizza
Scotlands nutritional balancing act.
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Safety in Numbers
The up side of wool collars.
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The Caffeine Coast
Following another Oregon Trail.
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The Eyes Have It
Learning a new kind of cursive.
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Jellyfish Rat
Peter Parkers pretty pump.
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Birds Need for Speed Limits
Making differential equations soar.
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Frisky Yeast
Do you really want to know what makes wine tasty?
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Freezable Fruit Flies
Rock-a-bye-baby, on the lab bench.
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Nutcase
Pinocchio's big act.
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Big Bedbug Families
This is one reunion you do not want to attend.
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Bat Mobiles
These ones don't shoot rubber bullets.
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Drinking and Thinking
Sandra suggests a wine pairing.
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Bacterial Gunslingers
Don't add this one to your Christmas list, kids.
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Password Pulse
An ancient rhythm to solve a modern problem.
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Groundhog Day
Groundhog Day. Groundhog Day. Groundhog Day.
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Arapaima vs. Piranha
Fighting tooth and scale.
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Bedbugs
This one'll make you itch.
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Frog Song
How some males get females hoppin'!
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Tripping the Brain Fantastic
Flying high for science.
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Fairytale Physics
When physicists split hairs.
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Cockroach Power
Making death work for you.
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Squirrel Stash
The envy of Ziploc bags everywhere.
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Minnow Electoral College
Voting in schools.
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Changing Size
Where 24 million generations gets you.
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Beak Plane
When finches crack, inspiration takes off.
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Waldo
Reconstructing thoughts from brain waves?
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Spidey Sex
A type of remote all guys hate.
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Solar Spirals
When hippies do math.
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Enron Mail
In the kitchen with Enron.
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The Finger
Lemurs flip beetles the bird.
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Mom Mug Shot
Through the eyes of a child.
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Cabbies
What driving on the wrong side does to your brain.
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Elastic Plastic
When changing partners is a good idea.
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Monkey Mobsters
A new treatment for dandruff?
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Farmer Teeth
When mashed potatoes became the fashion.
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Bees!
Warnings from the new King of the jungle ... make that the savannah.
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Wall Street Pirates
: Who's to blame for Wall Street's meltdown? How about... pirates?
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Clam Diggers
A new robotic digging device takes its cue from the experts: clams.
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Smokey Sez
A curious MIT undergrad has figured out just how trees make electricity.
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Car Talk
What's the best kind of talking car? One that matches your mood.
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Bar Fights
: Scientists studying the brains of intoxicated volunteers explain how alcohol can make you a lover AND a fighter.
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Smartest Model
With the help of the garment industry, researchers develop a model to explain how networks de-evolve.
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Inkjet Heart
Japanese researchers are using inkjet printer to make human organs.
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What a Drag
Physicists find that flopping things like fish make surprising use of drafting.
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What a Drag
: Physicists find that flopping things like fish make surprising use of drafting.
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Verdino the Ant Car
A self-steering golf cart mimics the patterns of ants.
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Artificial Trees
Engineers develop the world's first synthetic tree - in the form of a palm-sized piece of the same material used in contact lenses.
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Artificial Trees
Engineers develop the world's first synthetic tree - in the form of a palm-sized piece of the same material used in contact lenses.
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Alien DNA
Molecular biologists find signs of an ancient invasion - in DNA.
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Alien DNA
Molecular biologists find signs of an ancient invasion - in DNA.
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Tortilla
: The human brain maintains control by playing with our senses.
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Oh Canada
Do we have Canadians to thank for our very existence?
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Wasp Memory
: For creatures with teeny tiny brains, wasps have surprisingly good memories.
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Bus Stop
Mathematicians answer the eternal question of whether it's better to wait or walk.
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Clandestine Wine
: With the help of nuclear fallout, scientists are putting a stopper on wine fraud.
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Flower Power
Floral fingerprints on bullets may soon help cops link firearms to shooters.
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Toady Terror
To solve the problem of a blight of cane toads in Australia, researchers plan to... release more toads?
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Crash Predictor
The car of the future can predict the future.
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Supersized Scents
: Scientists create smellier blooms.
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Round Robin
Singing in rounds is for the birds. Really!
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Round Robin
Singing in rounds is for the birds. Really!
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Funny Money
: Magnetic ink may soon be the bane of counterfeiters.
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Counting Sheep
An algorithm based on molecular movements proves spot on at counting groups of animals.
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Bacterial Politics
Some bacteria seem to follow parliamentary law.
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Worm Grunting
: Why worm grunting gets the grubs out.
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Ignorance is Bliss
: Among the truly inept, gross overconfidence reigns supreme.
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Green Grass
: A new, genetically engineered grass means less greenhouse gas in Bessie's burps.
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Babbage Cabbage
A colorful - and very green - new way to keep tabs on your world.
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Death to Batty
The ugly truth about wind farms.
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Fault Zone
: For builders of ancient civilizations, location was everything.
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Stressed Moms
: The benefits of stress, in pregnant birds.
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Bug Spray
Scientists finally figure out why bugs hate insect spray. It smells bad!
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Fuzzy Writing
Far from a bad thing, our online time-wasting is helping to preserve historical documents.
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Feathers Your Nest
The latest in feathering the nest: homes built from chicken. Feathers, that is.
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Solar Cells
: New high-quality solar panels, as thin as film negatives, could be attached to any material. Picture... power-generating pants!
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Political Biology
: Scientists discover a link between physiology and political beliefs.
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