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Does Cosmology Matter?
Adam Frank: Looking back 100, 1000 or 10,000 years, it became clear to me that time in cosmology (be...
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Commentary: New “World Class” Universities: Cutting Through the Hype
It would be tempting for poor and middle-income countries to think that a top-flight research institution is all that...
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How the Cosmic Fog Cleared
Two studies shed additional light on a murky question: How did the cosmic fog that enveloped the universe in...
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Opinion: Occupy the Classroom
The single step that would do the most to reduce inequality has nothing to do with finance at all....
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The First Direct Image of a Baby Planet Being Born! (Maybe!) (But Probably!)
Astronomers may have, for the first time, directly imaged a planet still in the process of formation, gathering material...
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Energy: Friend or Enemy?
A review of The End of Energy: The Unmaking of America’s Environment, Security, and Independence by Michael J. Graetz...
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Why the U.S. Needs to Learn More Science
If the U.S. wants to keep its prominence as a world power and technological innovator in the 21st century,...
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Ancestor of All Living Things More Sophisticated Than Thought
The mysterious common ancestor of all life on Earth may have been more complex than before thought—a sophisticated organism...
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History That’s Written in Beads as Well as in Words
A small cadre of diverse collaborators in anthropology, archaeology, primatology, genetics, and linguistics have spent the last two and...
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Opinion: An Electrifying Ancestor
We know we got here from somewhere, but who would have suspected it was by way of a fish...