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  Suburban Sprawl to Power Cities of the Future

  July 30, 2013 — A city’s suburbs could hold the solution to dwindling fuel supplies by producing enough energy to power residents’ cars and even top up power resources, pioneering new research has ... > full story
• Personalized Medicine
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  Human Cells Respond in Healthy, Unhealthy Ways to Different Kinds of Happiness

  July 29, 2013 — Human bodies recognize at the molecular level that not all happiness is created equal, responding in ways that can help or hinder physical health, according to new ... > full story

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  Social Amoebae Travel With a Posse: Tiny Single-Celled Organisms Have Amazingly Complicated Social Lives

  July 29, 2013 — Some social amoebae farm the bacteria they eat. Now scientists have taken a closer look at one lineage, or clone, of D. discoideum farmer. This farmer carries not one but two strains of bacteria. One ... > full story
• Evolutionary Biology
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  Evolution of Monogamy in Humans the Result of Infanticide Risk, New Study Suggests

  July 29, 2013 — The threat of infants being killed by unrelated males is the key driver of monogamy in humans and other primates, a new study ... > full story
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  Mini-Monsters of the Forest Floor

  July 29, 2013 — A biologist has identified 33 new species of predatory ants in Central America and the Caribbean, and named about a third of the tiny but monstrous-looking insects after ancient Mayan lords and ... > full story
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  Make It Yourself With a 3-D Printer and Save Big Time

  July 29, 2013 — A new study shows that families can save hundreds if not thousands of dollars by making their own household items with a 3-D ... > full story
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  Therapeutic Fecal Transplant: Hope for Cure of Childhood Diarrhea Comes Straight from the Gut

  July 29, 2013 — Call it therapeutic poop, if you will, but the best hope yet for an effective treatment of childhood infections with the drug-resistant bacterium C. difficile may come straight from the gut, ... > full story
• Quantum Physics
  Nature of Water
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  Albert Einstein
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  When Fluid Dynamics Mimic Quantum Mechanics

  July 29, 2013 — Researchers expand the range of quantum behaviors that can be replicated in fluidic systems, offering a new perspective on wave-particle ... > full story
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  Borneo's Orangutans Are Coming Down from the Trees; Behavior May Show Adaptation to Habitat Change

  July 29, 2013 — Orangutans might be the king of the swingers, but primatologists in Borneo have found that the great apes spend a surprising amount of time walking on the ground. The research found that it is common ... > full story
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  Cement Converted Into an Electrical Conductor

  July 29, 2013 — Researchers have developed a cementitious material incorporating carbon nanofibers in its composition, turning cement into an excellent conductor of electricity capable of performing functions beyond ... > full story

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