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Life Found Deep Under Antarctic Ice For First Time?
By the Editor on February 6, 2013
Last week, a team found and collected microbes in a lake hidden under more than a half-mile of ice....
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Feeding the Final Frontier: 3-D Printers Could Make Astronaut Meals
By the Editor on February 6, 2013
Several decades from now, an astronaut in a Mars colony might feel a bit hungry. Rather than reach for...
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A Dose of Narcissism Can Be Useful
By the Editor on February 5, 2013
Narcissism has long gotten a bad rap. Its unseemly reputation dates back at least to ancient Greek mythology, in...
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With Identical Neurons, Two Worm Species Live Very Different Lives
By the Editor on February 5, 2013
Two species of worms have the same set of 20 neurons that control their foregut (a digestive organ located,...
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What If Earth Became Tidally Locked?
By the Editor on February 4, 2013
There’s a reason we only ever see one side of the Moon. It’s tidally locked to the Earth, presenting...
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The Unsexy Truth About Dopamine
By the Editor on February 4, 2013
If there were a celebrity among brain chemicals, it would be dopamine. Supposedly released whenever we experience something pleasurable,...
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Richard III dig: DNA confirms bones are king’s
By the Editor on February 4, 2013
A skeleton found beneath a Leicester car park has been confirmed as that of English king Richard III. Experts...
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Are We Running Out Of Scientific Geniuses?
By the Editor on February 1, 2013
Is the world clear out of geniuses? Will we ever have another Copernicus, another Darwin, another Einstein to shatter...
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You May Have Been Born to Flock
By the Editor on February 1, 2013
More than 70,000 people will flood into the Superdome in New Orleans this weekend, while thousands more swarm through...
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Magnetic Logic Makes for Mutable Computer Chips
By the Editor on January 31, 2013
Software can transform a computer from a word processor to a number cruncher to a video telephone. But the...
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