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Oldest Dinosaur ‘Nursery’ Discovered
Tiny prints from baby dinosaurs dot the oldest dinosaur nesting site found to date, a 190-million-year-old nursery in South...
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Magic Mushrooms May Help Treat Depression
Psilocybin, the active ingredient in so-called magic mushrooms, may help people with depression, based on two studies that suggest...
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Online Gamers Achieve First Crowd-Sourced Redesign of Protein
Obsessive gamers’ hours at the computer have now topped scientists’ efforts to improve a model enzyme, in what researchers...
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Lasers Are Even Cooler Than We Thought
Scientists at Denmark’s Niels Bohr Institute have figured out a cool new way to lower the temperature of hot...
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Alain de Botton’s TED Talk: Atheism 2.0
Alain de Botton suggests a "religion for atheists"—call it Atheism 2.0—that incorporates religious forms and traditions to satisfy our...
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‘Near Earth Objects’ Shield to Assess Earth Defense
NEOShield is a new international project that will assess the threat posed by Near Earth Objects (NEO) and look...
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Conservatives and Liberals Don’t See Eye-to-Eye, Literally
Conservatives and liberals pay attention to their environments differently, meaning the two sides of the political spectrum quite literally...
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Belief in Evolution Boils Down to a Gut Feeling
Intuitive reasoning may help explain why some people are more accepting of evolution than others.
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Comet’s Fiery Plunge May Tell Us How Planets Form
For the first time, scientists have caught a glimpse of a comet's final minutes before it was vaporized by...
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Semiotics: What It Means, and What It Means for You
Since meaning means a whole lot to us, semiotics should too, and yet most of us have never heard...
