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Astronomers Find Biggest Black Holes Yet
Astronomers are reporting that they have taken the measure of the biggest, baddest black holes yet found in the...
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The Politics of Famine
A common misconception is that hunger crises are about a lack of food. In Northern Kenya, where an estimated...
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Three-Quarters of Climate Change is Man-Made
Natural climate variability is extremely unlikely to have contributed more than about one-quarter of the temperature rise observed in...
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Earth in Balmy 2080
We cannot say for sure what kind of a home Earth will offer in 2080, but averages made across...
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Signal for Consciousness in Brain Marked by Neural Dialogue
Results indicate that “activity in a certain region is not sufficient to generate consciousness,” neuroscientist Simon van Gaal explains....
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Would You Kill One Person to Save Five?
This dilemma is a famous philosophical conundrum that was originally called the “trolley problem.” Now a team from Michigan...
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Searching for Goldilocks
At least four times in the last few years, astronomers have announced they have found planets orbiting other stars...
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Entangled Diamonds Blur Quantum-Classical Divide
Two diamonds as wide as earring studs have been made to share the spooky quantum state known as entanglement....
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Can Physicists Crack the Big Puzzle?
In his new book, The Infinity Puzzle: Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe, Oxford physicist...
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Warmer World Is the Challenge of a Generation
In the last few weeks major reports by the International Energy Agency and the UN Environment Programme have concluded...