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More data storage? Here’s how to fit 1,000 terabytes on a DVD
By the Editor on June 20, 2013
We live in a world where digital information is exploding. Some 90% of the world’s data was generated in...
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Atlantic Ocean to Disappear in 200 Million Years?
By the Editor on June 20, 2013
A new map of the seafloor off the coast of Iberia—the region of Europe that includes Portugal and Spain—has...
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Naked Mole Rats Reveal Why They Are Immune to Cancer
By the Editor on June 19, 2013
IF HUMANS lived as long relative to body size as naked mole rats, we would last for 600 years....
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Mars Had an Oxygen-Rich Atmosphere Four Billion Years Ago
By the Editor on June 19, 2013
Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere more than a billion years before the Earth, say scientists. An examination of meteorites...
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Which Came First, Life or Earth?
By the Editor on June 18, 2013
There is a tendency for people to think science knows more than it knows. We hear phrases like “gaps...
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Pesticides Spark Broad Biodiversity Loss
By the Editor on June 18, 2013
Agricultural pesticides have been linked to widespread invertebrate biodiversity loss in two new research papers. Pesticide use has sharply...
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Mysterious Subatomic Particle May Represent Exotic New Form of Matter
By the Editor on June 17, 2013
In the course of exploring the properties of a strange subatomic particle, physicists may have stumbled upon something even...
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Where Did We Go Wrong?
By the Editor on June 17, 2013
Who, or what, is conscious? How can we decide? Where in nature do we find consciousness? This can seem...
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New Physics Complications Lend Support to Multiverse Hypothesis
By the Editor on June 11, 2013
On an overcast afternoon in late April, physics professors and students crowded into a wood-paneled lecture hall at Columbia...
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How Much Consciousness Does an iPhone Have?
By the Editor on June 7, 2013
What has more consciousness: a puppy or a baby? An iPhone 5 or an octopus? For a long time,...
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