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'They didn't question it': Why doctors prescribe too many antibiotics Pediatricians in both the U.S. and Japan tend to prescribe antibiotics too often, although the doctors are now improving their track record. What's behind this tendency?
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History & Archaeology
'Once we were like you': Striking reconstructions reveal the faces of 16 people from Roman-era Hungary DNA analysis, 3D-printed skulls and forensic sculpture helped experts recreate people who lived near the ancient Roman frontier city of Aquincum nearly 1,700 years ago.
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Sacrificed Inca children died very differently than we thought, study finds A new look at three children who died in the Inca human sacrifice ceremony known as Capacocha reveals their last few months and moments.
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Planet Earth
Science word of the day: Abiotic Pronunciation:Ay-bye-AH'-tik
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Animals
'It was unlike anything I'd witnessed before': Orcas seen headbutting a sunfish so hard that it exploded In two encounters in the Gulf of California, one orca held a dead sunfish in place while another rammed it at high speed, breaking the carcass into what appear to be bite-sized pieces for younger whales.
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Mice on 'godforsaken' frozen volcanoes eat toxic plants to survive conditions 'not remotely compatible with long-term human survival' Researchers risked their lives to study Andean leaf-eared mice on the inhospitable peaks of the Puna de Atacama volcanoes in Chile.
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Space Exploration
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft awakens from yearlong hibernation to do unprecedented science beyond Pluto NASA's record-breaking New Horizons spacecraft has awoken from a 321-day hibernation in "good health" as it resumes unprecedented science at the solar system's edge.
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Technology
Meet Phantom Twist, a stealthy new drone that hides in plain sight by tricking your eyes High-speed rotation exploits the concept of motion blur to conceal a new drone while it's in flight.
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Chemistry
NASA astronaut shares image of impossible-looking 'hopper' crystal growing on the space station. What is happening? Astronauts grew a scroll-like crystal aboard the ISS, and its strange shape reveals what happens to ordinary salts once gravity stops running the show.
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