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How Partitioned Grocery Carts Can Help Shoppers Buy Healthier Foods

3:47pm May 26, 2015

by Shankar Vedantam

Eating healthy is easier said than done. Same with buying healthy food. Research finds that putting in partitions in grocery carts can increase the likelihood shoppers buy healthy fruits and veggies.

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Chew On This: The Science Of Great NYC Bagels (It's Not The Water)

10:55am May 26, 2015

by Maria Godoy

Popular myth has long credited New York's soft water for the city's irresistibly crusty, chewy bagels. But the chemistry behind a superior bagel is more complicated.

In Drought-Ridden Taiwan, Residents Adapt To Life With Less Water

6:45pm May 25, 2015

by Rob Ballenger

In Taiwan, businesses and residents have been learning to adapt to life with less water. The island country is coping with its worst drought in decades.

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The Speck air quality monitor costs $200, but is available to all through Pittsburgh's public library system.

A Home Air Quality Monitor That Can Be Checked Out From The Library

6:54pm May 24, 2015

by Larkin Page-Jacobs

In polluted Pittsburgh, a new device from a local university helps residents assess indoor air. It's not the only monitor on the market — but is the only one available to borrow from a public library.

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Author Says Researcher Faked Gay Marriage Opinon Study

11:15am May 24, 2015

A much-publicized study suggesting door-to-door canvassing could change opinions about same-sex marriage has been discredited. The co-author of the study has asked Science to retract its article.

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Planning to grill this Memorial Day? Below, Food Network chef Alton Brown has some tips to keep your flavor from going up in smoke.

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Clean Your Grill, And Other Hot Holiday Tips From Alton Brown

7:03am May 23, 2015

by Hansi Lo Wang

Whether you're barbecuing OR grilling, a meat-eater or a vegetarian, here's how to keep your flavor from going up in smoke this Memorial Day weekend.

Josh Brones walks his hunting dogs, Dollar (from left), Sequoia and Tanner, near his home in Wilton, Calif., in 2012.

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Who Let The Dogs In? We Did, About 30,000 Years Ago

7:36pm May 22, 2015

by Scott Neuman

A new study suggests that canis familiaris split from wolves much earlier than the 11,000 to 16,000 years ago that was long assumed.

A bird covered in oil flaps its wings at Refugio State Beach, north of Goleta, Calif., on Thursday. More than 9,000 gallons of oil have been raked, skimmed and vacuumed from a spill that stretched across 9 miles of California coast, just a fraction of the

Pipeline Operator: Possibly Months To Determine Cause Of Calif. Spill

6:35pm May 22, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Plains All American, the company that operates the pipeline, says it has yet to uncover the problem. So far, 9,000 gallons of sludge have been removed from a 9-mile stretch near Santa Barbara.

Plankton collected in the Pacific Ocean with a 0.1mm mesh net. Seen here is a mix of multicellular organisms — small zooplanktonic animals, larvae and single protists (diatoms, dinoflagellates, radiolarians) — the nearly invisible universe at the bott

Revealed: The Ocean's Tiniest Life At The Bottom Of The Food Chain

5:54pm May 22, 2015

by Christopher Joyce

The ocean's tiniest inhabitants — including bacteria, plankton, krill — are food for most everything that swims or floats. Now, scientists have completed a count of this vast and diverse hidden world.

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This fungus among us — baker's yeast, aka Saccharomyces cerevisiae — is useful for more than just making bread.

You And Yeast Have More In Common Than You Might Think

4:02pm May 22, 2015

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

Genetically, at least, not that much has changed in the billion years since you two last shared a relative. Roughly half the 500 genes yeast need for life are interchangeable with the human versions.

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