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Algorithm Finds When a Zigzag Path Is Quickest
A zigzag path can be quicker than a straight line when travelling underwater, due to constantly changing currents that...
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Science, Faith, Politics … and Wolves
Once again, science, religion and politics have become entwined in a thorny public policy debate. This time, however, the...
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Light
It is light that weaves the distant corners of the universe into a cosmic wholeness and that informs us...
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The ‘Most Important Questions’ in Science Policy
A series of bitter disagreements between scientists and policy-makers has prompted a group of researchers to create a list...
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Are Women Leaving Religion?
Both religion and conservative politicians are on the verge of losing the support of many of their constituents: women....
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Physics on the Fringe
For fifteen years, science writer Margaret Wertheim has been collecting alternative theories of the universe. Some are poems, others...
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GE Rejects Republicans’ Climate Change Doubts
General Electric has brushed aside the doubts leading Republican presidential contenders have raised about climate science. The U.S. industrial...
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Bee Who You Are
Honey bees drones actually have a large spectrum of personalities. Scientists found that some are homebodies, some are explorers,...
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Why Are Religious Beliefs Off Limits?
At the Huffington Post, Lawrence M. Krauss ponders the place of a candidate’s religious views in the public sphere:...
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Neutrinos Could Help Explain Missing Antimatter
Neutrinos produced by a nuclear reactor in China are changing from one flavour to another more rapidly than expected....
