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Homer's Odyssey, be it history or fiction, had one potentially true part that has fascinated readers throughout the ages ...

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The general anesthesia that puts patients into unconscious sleep so they do not feel surgical pain can increase the discomfort they feel once they wake up, say researchers from Georgetown University Medical.

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English researchers have developed a robot that can not only create 3-D replicas of objects like shoes and door handles - it also can replicate itself.

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Upside, it's free. Downside, it's a Mac.

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That photo of 11 weirdos in '70s clothes you may have seen on the Internet really is the original Microsoft team, snapped Dec.

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Exactly 20 years after warning America about global warming, a top NASA scientist said the situation has gotten so bad that the world's only hope is drastic action.

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For most people, photographing something that isn't there might be tough. Not so for Trevor Paglen.

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Researchers have found that female red squirrels showed high levels of multimale mating and would even mate with males that had similar genetic relatedness, basically mating with their relatives.

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The sounds "umph, umph, umph" might not resonate with you, but for baby crocodiles still in their shells, they are telling mom, "Let us out!"

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The Supreme Court on Monday stepped into a dispute over the Navy's use of sonar off the Southern California coast and its potential harm to dolphins and whales.

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