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• The New York Times can predict your future weight
• Rare form: Novel structures built from DNA emerge
• Finding the origins of life in a drying puddle
• Dead galaxies in Coma Cluster may be packed with dark matter
• Self-proclaimed experts more vulnerable to the illusion of knowledge

The New York Times can predict your future weight Posted: 20 Jul 2015 11:13 AM PDT What you're reading now secretly tells you whether your country will be skinnier or fatter in three years. After analyzing 50 years of all the food words mentioned in major newspapers like the New York Times and London Times, a new study shows that the food words trending today in 2015 will predict a country's obesity level in three years -- in 2018.

Rare form: Novel structures built from DNA emerge Posted: 20 Jul 2015 08:49 AM PDT Scientists have worked for many years to refine the technique of DNA origami. His aim is to compose new sets of design rules, vastly expanding the range of nanoscale architectures generated by the method. In new research, a variety of innovative nanoforms are described, each displaying unprecedented design control.

Finding the origins of life in a drying puddle Posted: 20 Jul 2015 06:45 AM PDT Anyone who's ever noticed a water puddle drying in the sun has seen an environment that may have driven the type of chemical reactions that scientists believe were critical to the formation of life on the early Earth.

Dead galaxies in Coma Cluster may be packed with dark matter Posted: 20 Jul 2015 06:26 AM PDT Galaxies in a cluster roughly 300 million light years from Earth could contain as much as 100 times more dark matter than visible matter, according to an Australian study.

Self-proclaimed experts more vulnerable to the illusion of knowledge Posted: 20 Jul 2015 06:23 AM PDT The more people think they know about a topic in general, the more likely they are to allege knowledge of completely made-up information and false facts, a phenomenon known as 'overclaiming,' research shows.

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