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A village in Durham is the latest place to report a strange vibrating noise - known as "the hum". Why is it such a mystery?
BBC News - Who, What, Why: Why is 'the hum' such a mystery
Back then, you were floating in amniotic fluid, protected, sanitized.
Gut Bacteria Know Secrets About Your Future : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR
All these pictures of kids might seem innocent at the first glance.
How Children's Brain Soak In Shocking News Stories | Epicmoron
50 Ridiculous and Weird Facts About the Human Body | Blogging Health Careers
Did you know that you may not have felt real empathy until you graduated from high school? Or, that your brain is the consistency of tofu ?
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Heart With No Beat Offers Hope Of New Lease On Life : NPR
How do emperor penguins survive underwater long after their oxygen should be depleted?
Emperor penguins are the undisputed champions of diving in the world of birds. They can travel more than 500 meters below the surface, and stay submerged for more than 20 minutes, even though by all accounts their oxygen should run out in just a fraction of that. So how do they pull off this incredibly cool trick?
A wannabe saboteur was apprehended at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) located in Switzerland.
Man Arrested At The Large Hadron Collider Claims To Be From The Future
The human genome provides penetrating and unexpected insights into human individual and collective history.
Determined to be different: what we do changes the wiring of our genes
When Cassini Met Nine Inch Nails : Discovery News
What do you get when you mix space exploration with an industrial rock band? If you're thinking a bunch of Klingons trying their hand at slash metal, you're not the only one .In more than a decade of operation, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has transformed our view of the high-energy Universe with its ability to make exquisite X-ray images of star clusters, supernova remnants, galactic eruptions, and collisions between clusters of galaxies.
Chandra :: Photo Album :: The Big Chandra Picture
While the solar storm did include a solar flare, the giant pulse of plasma, electricity, and matter that fountained across nearly half the sun's surface was a coronal mass ejection – and that's what we can thank for the auroral display filling the skies Wednesday night.