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Google Street View Goes to Its Most Extreme Destinations Yet: 4 of the Planet’s Highest Mountains
Perhaps you’ve always been curious: What is it like on top of the world? But as for going yourself,...
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As U.S. Cleans Its Energy Mix, It Ships Coal Problems Abroad
Ready for some good news about the environment? Emissions of carbon dioxide in the United States are declining. But...
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E. coli
Photographs of Jerram’s glass artworks are used widely in medical journals, text books and media stories and are seen...
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‘Parallel Universe’ of Life Described Far Beneath the Bottom of the Sea
Deep beneath the ocean floor off the Pacific Northwest coast, scientists have described the existence of a potentially vast...
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New Results Confirm: The Particle Believed To Be The Higgs Boson Really Is The Higgs Boson
The Higgs Boson really, really is the Higgs Boson. At first, testing at the Large Hadron Collider revealed a...
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Ritualizing Big History
Science writer Connie Barlow provides insightful resources for ritually celebrating Big History.
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Are Viruses Alive?
Are viruses life forms or not? Scientists have been fighting about it for years, and Anthony has more on...
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Jesuits, science and a Pope with a chemistry degree: A productive pairing?
In 1915, an exceptionally bright Italian youngster walked the two miles from his home to the Campo dei Fiori...
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Curiosity Finds Evidence For a Habitable Ancient Mars
“We have found a habitable environment,” said John Grotzinger, project scientist for the Curiosity mission. “The water that was...
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The Three-Billion-Dollar Brain
Last week, the Human Connectome Project, supported jointly by sixteen components of the National Institutes of Health, released its...