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	Richard III Grave Reconstructed in 3D The grave of King Richard III has been preserved for posterity — digitally at least. Scientists say they created a 3D reconstruction of the monarch's burial place discovered beneath a parking lot in Leicester, England, last year. Read More » Will Your Toddler Be a Drinker? Personality May Tell The personality traits of children in the first five years of their life may help predict alcohol use during teenage years, a new study shows. Read More » Alzheimer's Disease & Cancer: Each May Lower Risk of the Other Alzheimer's disease and cancer are both diseases of aging, but interestingly, having one of these conditions lowers the risk of developing the other, a new study from Italy suggests. Read More » Swamplike Waterways Found Under Antarctic Glacier A sprawling network of low-lying canals, similar to a swamp, hides under Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier, a new study finds. Read More » Shocking! Thresher Shark Stuns Prey With Tail Slap Thresher sharks have evolved an unusual but highly efficient hunting tactic: tail smacking. Read More » College Drinking: Guys Get 'Wasted'; Women Become 'Tipsy' When college-age guys and gals are asked to describe how drunk one of their friends is, they tend to apply more moderate terms to women, even when females are heavily intoxicated, a new study reveals. Read More » Navy Drone Makes First Aircraft Carrier Landing A robotic drone made military history today (July 10) with its first unmanned landing on a moving aircraft carrier at sea, U.S. Navy officials said. Read More » Why Americans Need Social Media 'Vacation' Internet users are suffering from social media overload from sites like Facebook and Twitter. Now, the majority of online users are looking for a social media vacation, new research shows. Read More » Moon Bill Would Create National Park to Protect Apollo Landing Sites A new bill introduced into the U.S. Congress would establish the Apollo Lunar Landing Sites National Historical Park on the moon. Read More » Baby Boy or Girl? Mammals Can 'Choose' Mammals can skew the male-female ratio of their offspring in order to maximize their reproductive success, new research finds. Read More » Dolphins May 'See' Pregnant Women's Fetuses Using echolocation, dolphins might be able to detect a pregnant woman's developing fetus, some experts say. Read More » Artists and Scientists: More Alike than Different Artists and Scientists: More Alike than Different Read More » 55-Carat Diamond Dazzles at NYC Museum The dazzling 55-carat Kimberley Diamond makes its debut at the American Museum of Natural History in New York Thursday (July 11). Read More » Worm Named After Physicist Max Planck The decorated theoretical physicist Max Planck is getting another posthumous accolade: his own nematode. Read More » Antarctic Ice Shelf Melt Sparks Seafloor Sponge Boom When the Larsen A ice shelf in Antarctica disintegrated almost two decades ago, the influx of sunlight breathed new life into the marine environment below. But now, the benthos, or seafloor life, is changing much more rapidly than scientists thought possible, according to a new study. Read More » Revamped Space Shuttle Enterprise Exhibit Awes New Yorkers NEW YORK — Crowds showed up in force Wednesday (July 10) to see the space shuttle Enterprise open to the public — again. The display of the prototype shuttle, which was donated to Manhattan's Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum by NASA, reopened after its first exhibition was closed due to damage from last October's Hurricane Sandy. Read More » Homicide Rate of Young People Dropped to 30-Year Low Youth homicide rates reached a 30-year low in 2010, following a fluctuating but generally downward trend since 1994, according to a new report. Read More » Gun Safety App Draws Fire An Android app intended to promote gun safety has critics firing off angry reviews instead. Read More » Mysterious New Virus Found in Sick Dolphin In October 2010, the body of a young short-beaked common dolphin was found stranded on a beach in San Diego, Calif. The sickly female had lesions in its airway, and a necropsy showed that it died of so-called tracheal bronchitis, likely due to an infection. Read More » 6 Children with Rare Disorders Helped by Gene Therapy Two rare hereditary disorders, one of which kills children within the first few years of life, can be treated with gene therapy, new research from Italy suggests. Read More » Early Warning Signs of Injection-Well Earthquakes Found Two new studies of earthquakes near injection wells have seismologists using words rarely heard these days in earthquake science: prediction and warning. Read More »
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