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Giant jellyfish threatening Japan's fishing industry

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Side effects of pharmaceutical trials in Britain

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Can drug tolerance reverse with abstinence?

  • ShawnD
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Taiwan breeds green-glowing pigs

  • Math Is Hard
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Medical Can dogs accurately detect cancer in humans through smell?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Can unused genes provide traits for distant future generations?

  • Loren Booda
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Is Struggle an Essential Mechanism of Evolution?

  • quantumcarl
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Medical Can Plasticity of the Brain Overcome Objections to the Theory of Mind?

  • pivoxa15
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What should I do about this heartburn?

  • tribdog
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Is there a cure for AIDS? A young man may have found a breakthrough.

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Medical Improving IQ: The Importance of Physics

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What breed is this puppy?

  • Pengwuino
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Is Sleeping with One Eye Open Harmful?

  • iggybaseball
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Blind as a bat (the mammal, not the baseball weapon)

  • rachmaninoff
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Medical Can hypnosis or psychology reduce sexual attraction and desire?

  • e^e
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Why don't countries send DDT to Africa for malaria control?

  • Mk
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Is MSG in Chinese Food Causing Excessive Fatigue?

  • wasteofo2
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Cyclopse Cat lived for one day

  • scott1
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Humans Use More Than 10% of Their Brains: Science Myths

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How did Eve's descendants avoid inbreeding if all humans trace to her?

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Medical Recovery from hyperpolarisation and Voltage Clamp

  • gamecube999
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What is the impact of having 3x chromosomes instead of 2?

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How weather affect your height? does it have any role at all?

  • En_lizard
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Medical Biological roots of passive agressive (PA) personality? PA disorder?

  • EnumaElish
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Will PFers answer the call to save Arildno's beloved butterflies?

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Why does spicy food make us sweat and clear sinuses?

  • Pengwuino
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Gene discovered that regulates lifespan

  • scott1
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How can you prevent stroke in adults?

  • Sprinter
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What is the Percentage of Sexual Offenders in the Total Population?

  • 0TheSwerve0
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Questions about Multiple Sclerosis: Risk, Depression, Cure

  • Lisa!
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What is the 0.1% of Bacteria That Antibacterial Products Can't Kill?

  • dleacock
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Is evolution a fact or theory?

  • Dooga Blackrazor
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Occipital bunning in neanderthals

  • 0TheSwerve0
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Can Excessive PC Gaming Stunt Your Growth?

  • Physics_wiz
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Is our future potential already coded in our DNA?

  • dleacock
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News DHS radiological cleanup: 10rem/year for general public?

  • rachmaninoff
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Resources on pollen morphology and pollination

  • Clausius2
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Why is Arrhythmia Bad? Answers from a Doctor

  • ShawnD
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Medical Is Reading Direction Linked to Brain Structure and Handedness?

  • Loren Booda
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Materials manufactured by cells

  • scott_alexsk
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How does an embolism cause death?

  • Mental Gridlock
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Medical What does the corticospinal tract have to do with the stretch reflex?

  • Roxy
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How do we adjust to temperature?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Is an All-Ham Diet Healthy? Pros and Cons of a Pork-Heavy Diet

  • tribdog
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Was Hwang's Stem Cell Research All a Fraud?

  • rachmaninoff
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Why Can We Stand Hotter Temperatures in our Mouths?

  • Danger
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Evolution of Poison: How Ladybugs Gained a Defensive Trait

  • LeonhardEuler
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Just got back from having a tooth pulled

  • zoobyshoe
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What are the bubbles coming from penguin backs underwater?

  • Math Is Hard
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Can dinosaurs make sounds if they're reptiles?

  • tribdog
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Medical Smell affects mating, aggression in mice

  • CosminaPrisma
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How is excess sodium in the diet linked to obesity

  • Mk
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Gah What's wrong with my ears :*(

  • moose
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Website selling fake cancer cure still operating by phone

  • Nothing000
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Medical Find Retinal Image Picture Examples: Possible?

  • Sir_Deenicus
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Gene Mixing and Cloning: The Role of Meiotic Cells in Reproduction

  • kleinwolf
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Did early humans have copper-based blood that was blue?

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Do cough syrups actually work?

  • jukiyaki
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Study: Recent Selection in Many SNPs

  • selfAdjoint
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What more does it take to clone a mammoth?

  • Andre
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Modern thoughts on the origin of organisms.

  • wasteofo2
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Treating ich in a 10 gallon tank with cherry barbs, kuhli loaches, and betta

  • DaveC426913
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Protein digestion happens alot in the stomach

  • ambzrose
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Medical Direct feedback between neural layers and isolated brain networks

  • neurocomp2003
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What is the biological definition for survival?

  • JimmyRay
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Dendritic cells and mouse cycle

  • iansmith
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At what age do most boys stop growing

  • Teegvin
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Ever wondered what lives in the depths of the ocean?

  • Bladibla
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Native Species from 2 Nonnatives?

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I just cut myself and I'm bleeding profusely

  • tribdog
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Medical What causes stuttering?

  • CosminaPrisma
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Medical Self-discipline predicts academic success better than IQ

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Medical Children Learn by Monkey See, Monkey Do. Chimps Don't. [article]

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Is it necessary to take a human's wisdom teeth out?

  • pivoxa15
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Do thoughts affect genes according to scientific papers?

  • PIT2
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How do synapses control muscle contraction?

  • vabamyyr
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Medical Is there a disorder for needing to be the smartest in the room?

  • quasi426
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Why is insulin and glucagon negative feedback for blood sugar?

  • JimmyRay
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Is Human Evolution Responsible for Mathematical Challenges?

  • zoobyshoe
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Skin color gene identified (NYT and Science report)

  • marcus
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Medical Where The Brain Combines What's Heard And Felt

  • CosminaPrisma
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Genetic sourcing for African Americans

  • Loren Booda
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Medical New Antidepressant Drug Increases 'Brain's Own Cannabis' [article]

  • hypnagogue
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Medical Is the subconscious just memory and background processing?

  • Dawguard
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Why flowers smell? what's the reason?

  • En_lizard
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Medical Conversation with Paul Ekman [interview]

  • hypnagogue
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Traffic collision at 30 mph into a 10 mph car caused serious injuries

  • cronxeh
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Sick, Tired, and Uncomfortable: A Night of Coughing and Woes

  • tribdog
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Medical Why Does Joseph R. Ferrari Study Chronic Procrastinators?

  • hypnagogue
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Mt Carmel College of Nursing renovation in Columbus, OH

  • BobG
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How does Cyanide block the electron transport system?

  • ambzrose
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What is the significance of the completed dog genome sequence?

  • iansmith
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Medical What is the technique behind lucid dreaming and how difficult is it to accomplish?

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Medical Conflicting sources on whether mental illness is biological

  • Blahness
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Biology textbooks for self-study with physics and chemistry background

  • pivoxa15
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Medical Do high-intellect people have higher suicide rates and mental disorders?

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