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Ships at Sea Stoke Lightning Strikes Oct 17, 2017

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Exhaust fumes from oceangoing vessels lead to an almost doubling of lightning activity over shipping lanes compared to adjacent areas of the sea.

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Gamers Wanted to Attack Food Toxin Oct 16, 2017

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By playing the online game Foldit, players might help design an enzyme that can stop aflatoxins from making millions sick.

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Squirrels Chunk Their Buried Treasure Oct 12, 2017

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Under certain circumstances squirrels will bury all of the same kind of nut near one another, a mnemonic strategy known as chunking.

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Cougar Calls Get Big Bear Reactions Oct 11, 2017

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Black bears and cougars share the Vancouver countryside, but not happily.

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Biometric Identifies You in a Heartbeat Oct 06, 2017

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Like fingerprints and facial recognition, the shape and beat of your heart can be used to verify your identity. Christopher Intagliata reports.

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When We Fly to Mars, Microbes Will, Too Oct 05, 2017

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The microbes that live in and on our bodies will colonize a human-manned spacecraft to Mars—but will the spacecraft's microbiome be safe? Christopher Intagliata reports.

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Nobel in Chemistry for Seeing Biomolecules in Action Oct 04, 2017

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution.

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Nobel in Physics for Detecting Gravitational Waves Oct 03, 2017

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The Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves".

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Nobel in Physiology or Medicine for Our Inner Clocks Oct 02, 2017

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017 was awarded to Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young for discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling circadian rhythms.

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Electric Eels Increase Shock by Leaving Water Oct 01, 2017

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Submerged electric eels lose current to water, so they apparently leap into the air to minimize their contact with water and maximize their shock value.

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