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Cybersickness: A virtual bummer

Video: Is a trip to the 3-D movies making you sick?



  • Arts & Culture

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What lice can tell us about human migration

The insect's DNA helps piece together our evolutionary history.



  • Research & Innovations

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Engineering and music: A powerful duet for art and science

These engineers and musicians are hitting just the right notes.



  • Arts & Culture

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Surgical robotics make certain medical procedures possible

Video: Robots help surgeons transcend human limits.



  • Research & Innovations

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Project IceCube and its frozen secrets

Video: Searching below the surface of Antarctica for the mysterious neutrino.



  • Research & Innovations

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Working with robotic arms

Brian Zenowich will sometimes spend his workdays doing a little arm-in-arm dancing. His dance partners manage to stay in step, duplicating his every move almost



  • Research & Innovations

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Should ticket buying be a game-time decision?

Find out when it's best to shell out your cash in exchange for tickets.



  • Arts & Culture

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The relationship between music and creativity

Video: Music can spark creativity in math and science.



  • Arts & Culture

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The physics behind the animation

Video: The best animators know that physics will make their animation more lifelike.




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Slicing the brain to find behavior patterns

Video: Digitized images of very thin slices of the human brain are used to determine whether behavior patterns are reflected in the structure of the brain.



  • Research & Innovations

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New home movies resurrect endangered Native American language

Minnesota educator develops multimedia tools to share and preserve Ojibwe language and culture.



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'Lost' fear memories restored in mice

A team of researchers restored "lost memories" in the brains of mice.



  • Research & Innovations

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Political Habitat: An eco and opposite reaction

Will Obama’s green cabinet give birth to the next spotted owl?




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Political Habitat: Making the world’s fourth largest lake disappear

A freshwater lake the size of the state of West Virginia has practically disappeared. The lessons that the Aral Sea may hold for U.S. waterways.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Political Habitat: After the ball

History has been made. Today is for the hangover, and then the hard work. Six distinguished environmentalists weigh in.




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Political Habitat: Emission, impossible?

Obama steals a play from the Reagan/Bush playbook, and hopes for the opposite result.




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Political Habitat: An ax falls in the forest

What’s been called the largest wetlands restoration in the Western U.S. was halted in December. California is projecting up to a $42 billion budget shortfall



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Political Habitat: The opposite of earmarks

Sometimes, the big guns in Congress aim to keep stuff 'away' from their states. Senator Harry Reid and the tale of Yucca Mountain is a prime example.




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Political Habitat: Open letter to a mad scientist

An MNN column causes an uproar in the scientific and not-so-scientific community. Our columnist responds.



  • Climate & Weather

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Political Habitat: I've never been so wrong in my life

OK, I admit. Maybe there's no such thing as climate change. Maybe it's all a hoax. Maybe.



  • Climate & Weather

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Political Habitat: Water, water ... everywhere?

Humanity is often at its worst and wackiest in our search for water. Peter Dykstra on a free-flowing font of bad ideas.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Political Habitat: Bailouts, bombshells and boondoggles

Step right up and watch how the government is misspending your tax dollars on the environment.




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Political Habitat: Notes from an Earth Day realist

Being eco-minded on Earth Day is like being merry on Christmas. It's to be expected. But here are seven things you can actually do to wake you from your eco-slu




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Political Habitat: Not in my backyard

You'll never guess who's fighting to stop the construction of a wind farm off the shores of Cape Cod. Environmentalists.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Political Habitat: Wrong turns

"Enron could've saved us" and four other environmental predictions that didn't come true.




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Political Habitat: A heap of trouble

Garbage science isn't rocket science. Each of us throws away a ton of stuff every year. Literally. The problem, and why it's only getting worse.




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Political Habitat: Obamecology, the first 127 days

Obama is an agent of change. Or at least he's supposed to be. Peter Dykstra grades six areas of the Obama presidency.




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Politicians: Want to get elected? Using swear words could help

A recent study featuring blog posts from fictitious Italian politicians found the use of swear words made candidates sound more relatable.




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The (unnoticed) suffering of BP CEO Tony Hayward

The mainstream media is ignoring the most important side of the BP oil leak story- the incredible suffering of Tony Hayward, the CEO of British Petroleum. Could




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Colbert shows Obama how to kick some BP butt

Comedian beats up BP CEO look-alike on 'Colbert Report'.



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Artist's mandala bowls extol magic of superfoods

An art student inspired by "clean eating" creates ephemeral fruit mandalas that are as tasty as they are beautiful.




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Cathedral architecture dazzles in vertical panoramas

"Vertical Churches" give viewers a head-turning look at some of the most beautiful architecture in the world.



  • Remodeling & Design

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'Killing Jesus' puts Christ in historical, political context

Nat Geo's telling of Christ's life focuses on his plight as a human being living in such a tumultuous time.



  • Arts & Culture

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Spellbanned: Etsy policy change invokes ire of witches

Metaphysical services are disappearing from the online marketplace faster than you can say 'I bind you, Etsy, from doing harm ...'



  • Arts & Culture

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10 historic churches reborn as something else

Here are 10 beautiful churches that have been converted into something else.




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10 Celtic gardens to inspire your moment of zen

Reconnect with the wild in these magic Celtic gardens.



  • Organic Farming & Gardening

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Tiny golden scrolls found on 2,000-year-old skeleton contain ancient magic spells

The spells are written in a mysterious language, but a few names of demons could be deciphered.



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Nun shows off soccer skills with police officer

This nun in Ireland shows off her soccer skills in a game of keepie uppie with a police officer.



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Vatican palace gets dairy-based makeover

Pope Francis' cows play a key role in a centuries-old restoration technique used on Vatican City's Belvedere Palace.



  • Remodeling & Design

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11 rollicking pre-Lent parties around the world

The festivities preceding the Catholic season of Lent are known by different names in different parts of the world. But it's a celebration everywhere.



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Archaeologists just discovered an ancient South American mystery religion

Artifacts uncovered at the bottom of Lake Titicaca show this religion pre-dated the Incas by 500 years.



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Why Volkswagen should revive the retro Microbus

Why Volkswagen should bring back the Microbus.




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Fact or fiction: Baking soda and peroxide make your pans shine

So many people have pinned this easy cleaning tip on Pinterest and shared it on Facebook, it has to work, right?




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Which OTC pain reliever should you use?

From acetaminophen to anti-inflammatories, not all nonprescription pain drugs are created equal; here’s how to choose from the confusing array.



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Do natural antibiotics work and are they safe?

Herbals and natural food alternatives may offer you a chance to skip the pills next time you're sick.



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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Health benefits of probiotics aren't just for tummies

Research is finding that probiotics might be useful in treating high blood pressure, anxiety, eczema and other maladies.



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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How to get rid of spider crickets

With their weird behavior and extra-large size, home infestation of spider crickets is a decidedly unpleasant experience.




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Who chilled the electric car?

Electric cars have been touted as the wave of the future, but current owners say the kinks aren't quite worked out yet.




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Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt: Electric cars hit the mean streets of New York

The Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt are game-changing electric vehicles due on the market by the end of the year, and I just got a sneak peek.




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Lance Armstrong backs all-electric Nissan Leaf

Seven-time Tour de France champion to become first person in America to own the new green car.



  • Arts & Culture