How the Grand Canyon could have lost 1 billion years of geologic history
The rise and fall of a massive cliff could help solve the mystery, a new study suggests
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A look at the Nobel Prizes for science: Catching neutrinos, controlling brain cells and the mystery of mirror image molecules
Catching neutrinos, controlling brain cells and the mystery of mirror image molecules won
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Gene therapy and special goggles give some blind people limited sight
A study extends an earlier success in one patient to more people with inherited blindness
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An experimental drug kills fat cells, rather than shrinking them
In two small trials, people lost dangerous visceral fat around their internal organs
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Extinct Crocodilian Found in Rocks That Built the Great Sphinx
Like the giant statue carved from the same stone, Herugavialis is missing its nose
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The world's loudest bird could drown out a rock concert
With a call of 130 decibels, the bare-throated bellbird is a big-beaked marvel
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