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The God Effect: Ambition Drops With Temptation
God references slipped into tests decreased student’s belief that they controlled their own destiny, researchers report, but made them...
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The Big Snap
How’s it all going to end? Being a cosmologist, I’m not talking about our new year, but about our...
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Chimp Viruses for Human Vaccines
An adenovirus isolated from chimpanzee feces is proving more effective than human adenoviruses as a vaccine vector for hepatitis...
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Scientists’ New Time Masker Creates Invisibility
Scientists at Cornell University hid an event for 40 trillionths of a second, according to a study appearing in...
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What Hand You Favor Shapes Your Moral Space
Psychologist Daniel Casasanto and his team have shown that for left-handers, the left side of any space connotes positive...
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The Art of Science Learning
It’s no secret: American children are behind in math and science, and falling faster by the year. For a...
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Studies of Deadly H5N1 Bird Flu Mutations Test Scientific Ethics
Dutch scientists have created a version of the deadly H5N1 bird flu that’s easily transmitted. In an unprecedented move,...
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Gravity Is the Ultimate Scrooge Principle, Part II
Wealth can behave like gravity, always making the rich richer and the poor poorer. If this is so, then...
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Gravity Is the Ultimate Scrooge Principle, Part I
Gravity in the cosmos presents a provocative metaphor for the large-scale behavior of the economy and the distribution of...
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War Really Is Going Out of Style
The idea that war is obsolescent may seem preposterously utopian. Aren’t we facing an endless war on terror, a...