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How the Unconscious Mind Boosts Creative Output
A study from the Netherlands finds allowing ideas to incubate in the back of the mind is, in a...
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The Next Ice Age and the Anthropocene
If you’ve wondered where to look for signs that Earth is entering a geological epoch of our own making,...
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Before DNA, Before RNA: Life in the Hodge-Podge World
Because RNA can do many things at once, those studying the origins of life have long thought that it...
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Why Science Is More Fragile Than Faith
We tend to see modernity in part as a triumph of science—an age when experimental discoveries and analysis have...
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At 70, Hawking Defies Disease
British scientist Stephen Hawking has decoded some of the most puzzling mysteries of the universe but he has left...
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Extinction Rate Likely Higher Than Predicted
As climate change progresses, the planet may lose more plant and animal species than predicted, a new modeling study...
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Higgs Result Means Elegant Universe Is Back in Vogue
After a short spell on the rocks, a mathematically elegant view of the universe is back in vogue. Recent...
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The Race to Document Biodiversity
The most extraordinary aspect of biodiversity is the way in which every living thing on earth, everything that has...
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Can Frankenfood Save the Planet?
Dutch biologist Mark Post is pretty confident that he can put a lab-grown hamburger on your plate by the...
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Climate Change Concern Cools in UK
Over the past decade, as news on the looming threat from global warming has continued unabated and become increasingly...