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Worm Discovery Illuminates How Our Brains Might Have Evolved
Our earliest invertebrate ancestors did not have brains. Yet, over hundreds of millions of years, we and other vertebrates...
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Scientists Send Encoded Message Through Rock Via Neutrino Beam
Humankind is constantly inventing new ways to stay in touch. But in some situations it’s difficult to keep the...
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Science Follows Dark Path Trying to Explain the Observed Universe
What are the options when a scientist faces a problem with no obvious solution? That is the dilemma astronomers...
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Mammals’ Rise Began Before Dinosaurs’ Fall
It was long believed that mammals began to diversify and flourish only after dinosaurs died out in the mass...
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Cause and Effect: Judea Pearl Wins Turing Prize
Humans have always made inferences about causes and effects, sometimes based on scanty information. Many machines do now, too,...
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Baby Brains May Be the Secret to Smarter Computers
Cognitive scientists hope to bottle up a baby’s brain — and the imagination and air of possibility that comes...
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Animal Import Bans ‘Choking Off’ Medical Research
Medical research in the U.K. is being jeopardized by activists who have persuaded transport companies to stop importing mice,...
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Possible New Human Species Unearthed in China
Scientists in China have found what may be a new species of human. Fossils show a group of people...
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Cumulative Cultural Development May Be Exclusively Human
Studies suggest that cumulative culture is unique to people, and that collaborative learning may be the key to human...
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Climate Change Beliefs Influenced By Recession
Americans are less likely to believe in man-made climate change as economic conditions get tougher, new research shows. Lyle...