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For Halloween, we have compiled the United State's scariest weather by state, including highlights of some of the most extreme weather events in history.
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Hurricane Sandy's powerful storm tide flooded 70 percent of New Jersey's historic submerged marshes. Now, geologists are plumbing for past storm records.
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Using lasers, scientists can now surgically blast holes thinner than a human hair in the heads of fruit flies, allowing them to gaze at how the rodents' brains worked while still alive.
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The number of malaria cases in the United States is the highest in more than 40 years, according to a new report for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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From links between individual neurons to fibers that span vast neural regions, the human brain is a marvel of neural wiring. A series of articles published today (Oct. 31) in the journal Science explores what scientists know about the brain based on how i
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It may look wicked, but a stunning — if not scary — new view of the Witch Nebula unveiled by NASA for Halloween is actually the home of baby stars just beginning their cosmic lives. NASA featured the image as its space photo of the day to mark Halloween.
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Beach nourishment works, according to a detailed survey of New Jersey homes damaged by Hurricane Sandy. But protecting private property by replenishing storm-damaged beaches may be tilting at windmills.
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Tail wagging could convey more meaning among dogs than previously thought. A new study found that dogs have different emotional responses to their peers depending on the direction of a tail-wag.
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A controversial theory involving an ancient giant squid or octopus preying on ichthyosaurs gets new life, as researchers claim they've found part of the beak of the Triassic monster.
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Meet the flying fox, the world's largest and least studied bat. One species in the western Pacific Ocean has now been studied for the first time in the wild, revealing some of the first details of how it eats and breeds.
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The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus, which caused a pandemic in 2002 and 2003, likely originated in horseshoe bats in China, according to a new study.
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Though Dracula may seem like a singular creation, Stoker in fact drew inspiration from a real-life man with an equally disturbing taste for blood: Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia or — as he is better known — Vlad the Impaler (Vlad Tepes).
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Autumn can bring a new crop of seasonal vegetables to your dinner table. Here are four vegetables in season in the fall, and a look at their nutrition.
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The majority of registered blind people have some residual ability to perceive light and motion. But assistive technologies for the visually impaired have been limited. Now, researchers from Oxford University in England are developing a set of sophisticat
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An extreme of winter on Earth is Antarctica, where the handful of research bases are places of solitude and waiting. The Franco–Italian Concordia outpost, seen here in this cool space wallpaper, is one of these.
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A bizarre boomerang-headed amphibian became a meal for the fin-backed Dimetrodon during the Permian, a new fossil find reveals. This weird creature interaction highlights an ancient ecosystem unlike any today.
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During the Permian period, a jaguar-sized finback chomped the heads off ancient amphibians with impractically wide bony skulls. The death match was uncovered in a bone bed in Texas.
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Crooks are smart about installing ATM skimmers to steal your card data. But you can still protect yourself. Here’s how to tell whether an ATMs has any illicit add-ons.
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On Monday, Curiosity took some scouting photos of an outcrop called "Cooperstown" from about 262 feet (80 meters) away. Researchers plan to investigate Cooperstown soon, putting the rover's arm-mounted gear to use for the first time since Sept. 22.
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Halloween is a traditionally scary time, and 10 years ago the sun joined the fray with one of the most powerful solar storms ever recorded. See the inside story of the Halloween solar storm of 2003 and watch a video of the amazing event here.
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This Halloween, many of those dressed as witches will be carrying broomsticks. But few likely know the shadowy tale of how witches came to be associated with those familiar household objects.
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The exoplanet Kepler-78b is just 20 percent wider and about 80 percent more massive than Earth, with a density nearly identical to that of Earth, two research teams report in separate papers published online today in the journal Nature.
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Air pollution in northern China recently reached astonishing lows, with visibility of about 30 feet. The clouds of smoke and smog have been tracked from above by NASA's Aqua satellite.
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Obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD, is a mental disorder characterized by recurrent and persistent thoughts (obsessions) and ritualistic behaviors (compulsions) that interfere with a person's daily life and relationships.
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An entomologist got a surprise when he returned from doing field work in Uganda: He had a tick up his nose. He got the tick's genome sequenced, and the animal may be a new species.
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Amid the make-believe witches, ghouls and goblins, there are supposedly real-life villains who lay in wait all year, scheming about the evil and mayhem they will wreak on Oct. 31. But are these threats real?
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For the first time, researchers have used a natural compound to create small-scale 3D-printed medical implants. The implants are made using the natural compound riboflavin, also known as vitamin B2.
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Guinea, a country in western Africa, is using a system that tracks lightning to monitor storms. The project is much cheaper than using Doppler radar, the conventional method.
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The Argentinosaurus is one of the largest known dinosaurs, but scientists were unsure how exactly the massive creature plodded across the Cretaceous Earth, until now.
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Using advanced computer modeling techniques, researchers digitally reconstructed the movements of the Argentinosaurus dinosaur, enabling them to recreate how it walked and ran for the first time.
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An up-close portrait of a corkscrew-shaped plankton, a peek into a painted turtle's eye and magnified view of a marine worm are among this year's winners of Nikon's Small World contest, which honors all things microscopic.
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The rotting flesh, the shuffling walk, the unintelligible groans — it's not hard to spot a zombie at a glance even among the most gruesome of Halloween monsters. But what's going on inside their brain?
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For more than three decades, camera-making company Nikon has held a photo contest to honor all things microscopic. From an image of a turtle eye to a portrait of a chameleon embryo, here are the winning images from the 2013 Small World competition.
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The color change helps reindeer eyes capture more light during the Arctic's dark winter months. The findings are the first known instance of a mammal altering the structure of its eye due to seasonal changes in environmental light.
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Scientists discovered three new species during an expedition to a remote rainforest in Australia. Here are pictures of the impressively camouflaged leaf-tail gecko, the golden-colored skink and the rock-loving frog.
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During an expedition to a remote part of northeastern Australia where few humans had tread, scientists discovered three new species of vertebrates: an impressively camouflaged leaf-tail gecko, a golden-colored skink and a rock-loving frog.
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This wallpaper shows Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, which preserves a spectacular landscape rich with majestic mountains, pristine lakes and extraordinary wildlife.
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No. Snakes are just the most successful of the many reptile lineages that went limbless, radiating over time into roughly 3,000 species that have exploited nearly every available habitat, from the treetops to the open ocean to the ground beneath our feet.
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Perhaps triggered by strong winds, globs of decomposed fish flesh recently rose from deep in the Salton Sea, coagulated into spheres on the lake surface and piled up on shore.
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New video has captured the gory act of a tick bite sucking blood. The new video and imagery reveals exactly how ticks puncture the skin and anchor themselves to the surface.
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In a few weeks, NASA's Operation IceBridge will take to the skies for another busy season of monitoring ice sheets, glaciers and sea ice from above. This year, the mission will be stationed in Antarctica for the first time.
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A population of humpback dolphins off the northern coast of Australia has now been identified as a distinct species, adding to the list of three other distinct species within this group of dolphins.
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Scientists confirmed for the first time this week that at least one type of Asian carp has successfully reproduced in the Great Lakes watershed, a development that could spell trouble for the region's native fish and plankton.
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Did a cyberattack shut down a major road system in Israel last month? The Associated Press says it did, but security experts who spoke to Tom's Guide weren't so sure.
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A compound found in centipede venom could block many forms of pain. The new molecule could sidestep the problems of opioids, which are addictive and need to be given in ever-increasing doses to achieve the same level of pain relief.
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Some researchers claim that there is scientific evidence linking Halloween spooks to rare but real medical conditions. Here's an explanation of how medical researchers may have discovered the scientific roots that underlie so-called monsters.
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In a Halloween nightmare of its own kind, parents can only watch as their kids collect and eat as many candies as they can on their trick-or-treat adventure. Here are some sneaky things parents can do to make Halloween a healthier day for kids.
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Now scientists have used a set of these biomolecules to show one way in which life might have started. They found that these molecular machines, which exist in living cells today, don’t do much on their own.
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The ghostly Boomerang Nebula, called the 'coldest place in the universe,' reveals its true shape in this amazing space wallpaper from the giant ALMA radio telescope.
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A drug that treats rare blood diseases may also help people bitten by the poisonous brown recluse spider, who develop a life-threatening loss of blood cells, a new study finds.
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Some soldiers in the U.S. military desperate to maintain good standing sometimes turn to plastic surgery as a way to maintain the Defense Department's strict standards for body fat and fitness, according to news reports.
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Hurricane Sandy made landfall on Oct. 29, 2012, sending floodwaters pouring across the densely populated barrier islands of Long Island and the Jersey shore, including Breezy Point in the Rockaways, Queens.
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The brain may be an even more powerful computer than before thought — microscopic branches of brain cells that were once thought to basically serve as mere wiring may actually behave as minicomputers, researchers say.
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Flooding from storm surge has caused more deaths during hurricanes than any other hurricane threats combined since 1900, and yet the National Hurricane Center has not yet devised a system of categorizing storm surge.
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Incredibly sensitive seismic stations spread across the United States captured what it looks like when there's an earthquake right next door. The ripples spread across the continent, revealing the quake's orientation and motion.
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Giant armadillos live up to their name, growing up to five feet long and digging holes up to 16 feet deep. These burrows serve as homes for a wide variety of animals in the Amazon.
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Researchers have dissected the two deep-sea oarfish that washed ashore in southern California this month. So far, they found that one was teeming with worms and the other was about to have babies.
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Gardeners may love earthworms, but in forests near the Great Lakes, the creatures are alien invaders that change soils and destroy the forest understory.
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Six nearly identical earthquakes that occurred in the Gulf of California over a period of several years reveal how earthquake waves, too subtle to be felt by humans, ripple across the United States over the course of 20 minutes.
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According to Google, the project’s goal is to provide easily accessible and reliable information about the location of current fires, their size, listings of fire warnings, as well as to issue alert messages to users.
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For older adults, gardening and "do-it-yourself" home activities like fixing up the house may cut the risk of heart attack and stroke, a new study from Sweden suggests.
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A new activity tracker claims to be able to analyze what you eat using a sensor on the wrist — no food diaries needed — but experts are skeptical of the claim.
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Mount Etna's latest burst of volcanic activity can be seen from space. NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg spied a plume of ash from Mount Etna trailing over Sicily from her post aboard the International Space Station.
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The unprecedented nature of Hurricane Sandy — which struck the East Coast one year ago this week — led to a significant health and mental-health impact that continues today, experts say.
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Pink eye, also known as conjunctivitis, develops when the transparent membrane, or conjunctiva, lining the eyelid and the white part of the eyeball gets inflamed. You can get pink eye from someone else if their bacterial or viral infection passes to you.
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Some studies claim to find junk food as addictive as drugs, but experts say that what actually determines the addictive nature of a substance, and whether an individual becomes addicted, is complex.
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A year after Hurricane Sandy devastated New York City, some of the trees that were damaged by the storm have been repurposed for public use, in an art exhibit at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and a public playground in Prospect Park.
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Hurricane Sandy toppled thousands of trees across New York City. In one corner of Brooklyn, two new installations have been built in the past year to put some of the downed trees to use.
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From the soulless Jewish monster created from soil to the cannibal ghouls of Native American cultures, here are several spooky ghost traditions from around the world.
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The sun has just unleashed another major solar flare, the third of its kind in three days, scientists say. The huge solar storm occurred late Sunday at 10:03 p.m. EDT (0203 Oct. 28 GMT). It registered as an X-class solar flare.
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Anecdotal evidence has long supported the hypothesis that the fair sex is also the "do-a-bunch-of-things-at-the-same-time" sex. And now a study out of the U.K. helps to support the idea women are better at multitasking than men.
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A magnetic filament of solar material erupted on the sun in late September, breaking the quiet conditions in a spectacular fashion as seen in this amazing space wallpaper — dubbed a “canyon of fire” by NASA officials.
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