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Dark Matter Particles May Be Heavyweights After All
By the Editor on November 30, 2011
Dark matter is slowly running out of places to hide. Two new looks at the gamma-ray sky suggest that...
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Creative Thinkers More Likely to Cheat
By the Editor on November 30, 2011
When it comes to money, creative people are more likely to cheat to get it than the less-imaginative crowd,...
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Consciousness Is a Matter of Constraint
By the Editor on November 30, 2011
Brain researchers and philosophers of mind have focused on brain processes, neural computations, and their correspondences with the physical...
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Pushing Past the Taboo of Climate Adaptation
By the Editor on November 29, 2011
Climate adaptation: reconfiguring our world’s economies and policies to work under a more extreme climate. While that might seem...
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What Is the Future of Knowledge in the Internet Age?
By the Editor on November 29, 2011
David Weinberger is one of our most incisive thinkers about the digital age, a senior researcher at Harvard University’s...
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Blinged-Out Stars Were Born Rich
By the Editor on November 29, 2011
At first glance, CS 22892-052 looks like a run-of-the-mill old star. Born about 13 billion years ago, only 700...
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Ultimate Guide to the Multiverse
By the Editor on November 28, 2011
Whether we are searching the cosmos or probing the subatomic realm, our most successful theories lead to the inescapable...
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Oracles Past and Present: Our Means of Managing Information
By the Editor on November 28, 2011
Our ability to find and share information today is potentially limitless. But how did we get here? From cave...
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Life Began With a Planetary Mega-Organism
By the Editor on November 28, 2011
Once upon a time, 3 billion years ago, there lived a single organism called LUCA. It was enormous: a...
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Why the Higgs Boson Matters
By the Editor on November 28, 2011
From afar it may seem entirely disconnected from the real world, but the Higgs boson is much more integral...
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