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BIOLOGY

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It’s all about how it enters the body.

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The ins and outs.

Ilya Bobrovskiy, the Australian National University

Organisms called 'Dickinsonia' defied classification for decades.

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It involves something called a "love dart," and it's less romantic than it sounds.

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Universality strikes a balance between order and randomness.

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In case you need an excuse to smile at goats.

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And scientists just discovered them.

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This discovery could have life-saving applications.

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You don't need it in your toothpaste or croissant.

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They’re more common than ever.

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We look into what neuroscience has to say about ASMR, or autonomous sensory meridian response—one of YouTube's most popular subjects.

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Sometimes it can create "soapy" corpses.

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It's less creepy than it sounds.

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Had Rosalind Franklin lived longer, she very well may have qualified for more than one Nobel Prize.

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Not all cats love it.

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Many of our distinct vocal characteristics may be determined in utero.

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They're more than just a place to dab polish.

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And it hasn't gone out of fashion yet.

A spider exhibiting ballooning behavior.

It could explain how spiders can take to the skies even on windless days.

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It's very different from dizziness.

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Perhaps most disturbing of all is the baby head poking out of the sculpture’s marsupial pouch.

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Migraine disorder is much more than a bad headache.

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Some speculate that Einstein may have had it.

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Read on and curse if you must. Why the hell not?