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World’s Deepest Land Animal Discovered
By the Editor on February 23, 2012
In the dark abyss of the world’s deepest known cave lurks a newfound species of primitive eyeless insect, one...
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Flowers Regenerated From 30,000-Year-Old Frozen Fruits
By the Editor on February 22, 2012
After more than 30,000 years, and some care from Russian scientists, some ancient fruits have produced a delicate white...
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Religious Freedom and the Conservative Quest for Absolute Truth
By the Editor on February 22, 2012
When the Obama administration declared that employees of Catholic institutions must have contraception covered in their health plans (before...
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Rare Earth Element Discovered In Ancient Stars
By the Editor on February 22, 2012
In three stars far, far away, one of the rarest elements known to man has been spotted, improving our...
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How Earth’s Primordial Soup Came to Life
By the Editor on February 21, 2012
Just as species are thought to have evolved over time, the individual molecules that form the basis of life...
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AAAS President Says Big Business ‘Driving Science Into a Dark Era’
By the Editor on February 21, 2012
Most scientists, on achieving high office, keep their public remarks to the bland and reassuring, but Nina Fedoroff, the...
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Lab-Grown Meat Is First Step to Artificial Hamburger
By the Editor on February 21, 2012
Dutch scientists have used stem cells to create strips of muscle tissue with the aim of producing the first...
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Disease-Fighting Secrets of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes
By the Editor on February 21, 2012
Insects cover our planet. Filed into 750,000 different species, at any given time there are one million trillion bugs...
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The Origin of Photosynthesis Revealed
By the Editor on February 21, 2012
Atmospheric oxygen really took off on our planet about 2.4 billion years ago during the Great Oxygenation Event. At...
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You Can’t Do the Math Without the Words
By the Editor on February 21, 2012
Most people learn to count when they are children. Yet surprisingly, not all languages have words for numbers. A...
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