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Meet John Lott, the Man Who Wants to Arm America’s Teachers
In the debate over gun control sparked by the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, most gun-rights advocates...
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The Trash We’ve Left on the Moon
Recently, two probes that had spent the past year orbiting the moon for NASA’s GRAIL mission slammed into the...
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Human Wellbeing Can Strengthen Case for Conservation
The growing evidence linking green spaces to human wellbeing could help strengthen the case for conservation, a conference has...
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A Backdoor Way to Do Experiments on Exotic Gravitational Physics
The whole point of an explanation is to reduce something you don’t know to something you do. By that...
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Humans Changing Salinity of the Seas
When you hear about climate change it’s most often about melting glaciers and sea ice, increasing frequency of heatwaves...
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People May Be Stingier Than Thought
People may not be as generous to strangers as social scientists previously believed, at least if a new study...
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Tool-Using Orangutans Learn Like Humans
Even when they are very young, orangutans may start to form ideas about their world — specifically, how and...
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Another Earth Just 12 Light-Years Away?
Astronomers have discovered what may be five planets orbiting Tau Ceti, the closest single star beyond our solar system...
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Ancient Bones That Tell a Story of Compassion
While it is a painful truism that brutality and violence are at least as old as humanity, so, it...
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State of the World’s Science
The pursuit of knowledge is now a global enterprise. Scientific American and Nature have teamed up on this special...