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What Did Dinosaurs Smell Like?
Smell was certainly an important part of dinosaur life. What do we know about it?
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Eye of the Storm
A Rogues’ Gallery of the Five Category 5 Storms of 2019
The two Atlantic Category 5 hurricanes and three Northwest Pacific Category 5 super typhoons of 2019 set records
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Glutamate Built the Brain—Can It Treat It, Too?
A complex natural signaling system could help address impulse-control disorders
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Are UFOs lighting up the skies over Australia's outback?
Move over Roswell. New Mexico's UFO Museum and Research Center may attract more than 150,000 visitors annually who are curious about the alleged 1947 alien crash landing there, but some residents of Australia's outback claim their skies are alive with unidentified flying object activity now ...
McCain's Veep Pick Palin: Open ANWR to Drilling
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain today surprised the nation by picking first-term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his running mate.
XXX-Files! Agent Mulder can't get enough
Actor David Duchovny, best known for his role as Fox Mulder on the FOX TV series The X-Files and its related movies, checked himself into a rehab facility for sex addiction, according to news reports and a statement released by his lawyer yesterday...
World's largest machine--the electric grid--is old and outdated
The U.S. electric grid is so old and outdated it can't handle the influx of wind power and other intermittent renewable resources. Integrating such sources requires adapting a system that is finely tuned to balance the amount of electricity being used with the amount of electricity being generated with fickle winds...
Series of earthquakes hits Vancouver Island
Canada's Vancouver Island has been jolted by a string of earthquakes and their aftershocks since Monday, but residents have barely noticed because the tremors are so far offshore.
Gustav approaches hurricane status as it bears down on Jamaica, the Gulf Coast
After a deadly run through Haiti during which 23 people were killed by floods and landslides, tropical storm Gustav is expected today to graduate to hurricane status as it bears down on Jamaica with winds whipping at 70 miles per hour, just shy of the 74 miles (119 kilometers) per hour required for a Category One hurricane, Reuters reports...
World record ($100,000) prime number found?
Researchers may have turned up the 45th example of a Mersenne prime—a type of prime number rare enough that months or years of computerized searching are required to pick one out among the throngs of mere primes...
Health care reform: The uninsured congressman stays healthy
When Barack Obama speaks at the Democratic National Convention tonight, many of us will tune in to hear whether he addresses health care reform.
That reminded Scientific American to catch up with Democratic Rep...
Pot is good for you? Marijuana fights the superbugs
Good news for potheads making their annual trek to Black Rock, Nev. this week to celebrate Burning Man: A new study says that marijuana appears to fight infections.
Game-playing astronauts infect NASA computers with virus
Computer viruses—the scourge of technology on Earth—have now become a problem in space, too. NASA has confirmed that the malevolent programs have also posed problems in computers astronauts bring with them on missions, the latest occurring when laptops infected with the Gammima.AG virus were ferried to the International Space Station (ISS) last month...
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