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Oddball Planet Goes the Wrong Way & Is Dense as Packing Peanuts

80beats | August 12th, 2009 in Space | 8 Comments »

Orchid Lures in Hornets With the Smell of Bee Fear

80beats | August 11th, 2009 in Living World | 2 Comments »

Stats Suggest Recession Prevented Over 70K Babies From Being Born

80beats | August 10th, 2009 in Health & Medicine | 13 Comments »

NASA’s New Kepler Spacecraft Is Ready to Find Some Earths

80beats | August 7th, 2009 in Space | No Comments »

TV Can Slow Language Development, Even in the Background

80beats | June 2nd, 2009 in Health & Medicine, Mind & Brain | 6 Comments »

Kepler Sends Postcards Home: It’s Beautiful Out Here

80beats | April 17th, 2009 in Space | 8 Comments »

MIT Students Who Hacked Boston Subway Silenced; Report Gets Out Anyway

80beats | August 11th, 2008 in Technology | 1 Comment »

Fancy Fingerprinting Could Tell if You’ve Been Misbehaving

80beats | August 8th, 2008 in Technology | No Comments »

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