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9,500-Year-Old “Cultic” Figurines Found in Israel
Archaeologists have uncovered two 9,500-year-old cultic figurines in excavations just outside of Jerusalem, the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) reported....
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Creativity Crucial to Engineering Innovation
For a researcher who builds robots, Maurizio Porfiri credits his success to an unexpected source — literature. Paul Auster’s...
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Record Laser Pulse the Key to Hidden Quantum World
The most significant breakthrough in the laser pulse field in four years provides scientists with a new tool to...
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Mathematics or Memory? Study Charts Collision Course in Brain
You already know it’s hard to balance your checkbook while simultaneously reflecting on your past. Now, investigators at the...
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Species Multiply as Earth Heats Up
Rather than kicking off the expected cycles of extinction, periods of warming in Earth’s history were accompanied by increased...
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Tigers Take the Night Shift to Coexist With People
Tigers aren’t known for being accommodating, but a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
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Meet New York’s New Environmental Hero: the Oyster
Marine scientists, planners and government officials say millions of mollusks planted in waters off New York and other cities...
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Former NASA Engineer Designs App to Chart Water Quality
When environmental engineer John Feighery got a job testing well water in Bangladesh for the National Institutes of Health,...
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As People Age They Rely on Supernatural More
Reliance on supernatural explanations for major life events, such as death and illness, often increases rather than declines with...
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Nuclear-Powered LEDs Could Provide Food for Future Space Colonies
With the successful landing and deployment of the Mars Curiosity Rover, humanity has been treated to a sneak peek...