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Ancient Greek sculptures were actually vibrant with color

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If you looked closely enough, with scientific equipment and rigor, many sculptures started to look like a coloring book just waiting to be painted in. Lab analysis of the microscopic grains of pigment that had survived here or there on many sculptures, along with close examination of the faded tints that had survived intact on another few, supplied the colors of the paint
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Bermuda Triangle myster solved- massive methane bubbles

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Any ships caught within the methane mega-bubble immediately lose all buoyancy and sink to the bottom of the ocean. If the bubbles are big enough and possess a high enough density they can also knock aircraft out of the sky with little or no warning. Aircraft falling victim to these methane bubbles will lose their engines-perhaps igniting the methane surrounding them-and immediately lose their lift as well, ending their flights by diving into the ocean and swiftly plummeting
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Scientists solve chicken and egg mystery.

the chicken came first... or did it?
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Robins can literally see magnetic fields

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Thanks to special molecules in their retinas, birds like the European robins can literally see magnetic fields. The fields appear as patterns of light and shade, or even colour, superimposed onto what they normally see.
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Economics

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Economics is the social science that is concerned with the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Recent economic events, however, have cast a shadow on the legitimacy of economists' scientific method. Is this real or are practitioners of Economics delusional?
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Multicellular life from over two billion years ago discovered

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The discovery in Gabon of more than 250 fossils in an excellent state of conservation has provided proof, for the first time, of the existence of multicellular organisms 2.1 billion years ago. This finding represents a major breakthrough: until now, the first complex life forms (made up of several cells) dated from around 600 million years ago.
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Research: Women with small feet have more attractive faces to men

The men were three-and-a-half times as likely to pick the short-footed morph as more attractive, and almost 10 times as likely to say it was more feminine, Atkinson and Rowe found. Similarly, they were more than 11 times as likely to pick the narrow-hipped morph as more attractive, and eight times as likely to choose the long-thighed morph, the researchers reported at a meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Eugene, Oregon, last month.
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"Smart Sheets" That Can Self-Assemble Into Airplanes

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Scientists at MIT and Harvard have invented self-folding smart fiberglass sheets that can crease themselves into origami airplanes and boats. It's a far cry from previous programmable matter research we've seen, which works at the nanoscale to create scaffolds and gears.
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Michelangelo Painted a brain stem in the image of God

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The latest assertion appears in the journal Neurosurgery, where Ian Suk and Dr. Rafael J. Tamargo claim that Michelangelo included a rendering of the human brain stem in the fresco titled "The Separation of Light from Darkness".
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15 House Plants You Can Use As Air Purifiers

A NASA research document came to the conclusion that “house plants can purify and rejuvenate air within our houses and workplaces, safeguarding us all from any side effects connected with prevalent toxins such as formaldehyde, ammonia and also benzene.” Here are the results of the NASA research study:
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Call for 'artificial life' DNA ban

The success of scientists in the US in developing the first living cell to be controlled entirely by synthetic DNA has led to a call for a ban on the research. The scientists constructed a bacterium's "genetic software" and transplanted it into a host cell.
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Scientists create partially synthetic bacterial cell

"We think these are the first synthetic cells that are self-replicating and whose genetic heritage started in the computer. That changes conceptually how I think about life," said the leader of the project, J. Craig Venter, whose self-named research institute has laboratories and offices in Rockville and San Diego.
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