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Nature Enhances Creativity and Problem-Solving Skills

By Christine Hsu | Dec 13, 2012 11:02 AM EST

A new study finds that being in the great outdoors may do more than improve your physical health: it can also boost your creativity.

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520 Million Year Old Bug-Like Creature May Have Had the First Modern Brain

By Christine Hsu | Oct 10, 2012 03:45 PM EDT

Scientists say that the recently discovered 520 million year old insect brain, the oldest brain ever discovered in an arthropod, is surprisingly complex for its age, and may be the earliest example on record of a modern brain structure.

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The World's Endangered Species May Be Extinct By 2020: Will You Save Them?

By Nikki Tucker | Sep 11, 2012 07:16 PM EDT

Here are just a few species that are first in line to disappear if we sit back and do nothing to protect them.

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