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Turning Thoughts into Actions The World Cup final is about to begin. You want to turn on the TV and get to the right channel. So a small area of your brain calls the motor cortex processes and sends intricate electrical signals to your arm and hand,

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Animals that live in cold climates tend to have stubby limbsshorter arms and legseven smaller ears and tails. Picture a penguin and youll see what I mean

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Sometimes women and men break a nail working on a tough task. Because our keratin claws are no match for the club-like appendages of a critter called the peacock mantis shrimp. They can hammer through crab exoskeletons and even mollusk shells to find

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1. President Bush says marriage between a man and a woman is one of the most important institutions and he's proud to support a constitutional amendment to ban same sex marriages. He spoke today as th

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China, Russia vow further inter-parliamentary, economic cooperation

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US Economic Policies Amount to 'Hooliganism'

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Hello, I'm Nil Nunes with the BBC News. The British Prime Minister, David Cameron, is preparing for a day of frantic diplomacy in Brussels, as he tries to win support from the twenty-seven other European leaders to achieve the reforms he wants. The d