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Birth Control Ruling Upsets Religious Groups
In a long-anticipated decision that will affect millions of women’s ability to pay for contraception, the Obama administration announced...
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Controversial Killer Flu Research Paused
Researchers developing extra-contagious strains of H5N1 avian influenza have agreed to pause their work for 60 days. The moratorium...
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New Definition of Autism Will Exclude Many
Proposed changes in the definition of autism would sharply reduce the skyrocketing rate at which the disorder is diagnosed...
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Fracking Would Emit Large Quantities of Greenhouse Gases
Add methane emissions to the growing list of environmental risks posed by fracking. Opposition to the hydraulic fracturing of...
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Leap Second Receives Last-Minute Reprieve
The leap second may live on for at least another three years. Once or twice a year, the leap...
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Quantum Computing Could Head to ‘the Cloud’
The search for the perfect alliance between science and technology has married quantum computing to the future of IT...
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Seaweed May Be Our Energy Future
Scientists in a cluttered Berkeley laboratory are working a bit of biochemical wizardry to transform ordinary seaweed into biofuels...
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Why Does Our Universe Have Three Dimensions?
Why does our universe look the way it does? In particular, why do we only experience three spatial dimensions...
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The Evolution of Personality
Examining four animal groups with high relative brain size, and finding that they have a variety of qualities in...
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What Happened Before the Big Bang?
What existed before the big bang? What is the nature of time? Is our universe one of many? On...
