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How Gene Editing is Changing the Future of Wine—and Making it Less Likely to Give You a Hangover

Gene editing techniques like CRISPR are upending thousands of years of wine-making tradition.

How Gene Editing is Changing the Future of Wine—and Making it Less Likely to Give You a Hangover

Wolf Puppies Play Fetch, Too, Study Finds

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Wolf Puppies Play Fetch, Too, Study Finds

10 New Bird Species and Subspecies Discovered on Indonesian Islands

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10 New Bird Species and Subspecies Discovered on Indonesian Islands

The Reason So Many Babies Are Conceived in Winter

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The Reason So Many Babies Are Conceived in Winter

A First Edition of Darwin's On the Origin of Species Could Sell for $180,000

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Mystery Solved: Scientists Have Figured Out Why Some Squirrels Are Black

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5 Rules for the Paleo Diet from Actual Paleolithic Humans

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5 Signs Humans Are Still Evolving

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Why Were Dinosaurs So Large and Why Don't Animals of That Scale Exist Today?

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13 Facts About Genes

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Elephants Are Evolving Without Tusks Thanks to Poaching

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12 Common Things Science Still Hasn't Figured Out

Laughter: Still a scientific mystery

Why Are Humans Ticklish?

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10 Smart Facts About Wisdom Teeth

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A Puppet Drama About Charles Darwin Is Coming to London's Natural History Museum

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Homo Erectus Might Have Been Really 'Lazy'

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