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A Major Advance Toward a Birth Control Pill for Men
By the Editor on August 17, 2012
Potentially huge news published today in the journal Cell is the result of two years of collaboration between teams...
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Sun Dominates Space Weather Concerns for Next Decade
By the Editor on August 17, 2012
A new report based on input from the science community outlines the most pressing objectives over the next decade...
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The Sun Is the Most Perfect Natural Sphere
By the Editor on August 17, 2012
Scientists measuring the sun were shocked to find it’s the most perfectly round natural object in the universe. Until...
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The Arctic Ice Crisis
By the Editor on August 16, 2012
There’s no place on Earth that’s changing faster – and no place where that change matters more – than...
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Ancestor of Sharks, Humans Had Sixth Sense
By the Editor on August 16, 2012
The common ancestor of sharks and humans — and all jawed animals with a backbone for that matter —...
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Do Babies Have a Moral Compass? Debate Heats Up
By the Editor on August 16, 2012
An experiment five years ago suggested that babies are equipped with an innate moral compass, which drives them to...
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Extreme Galaxy Cluster Birthing Stars at Excessive Rate
By the Editor on August 16, 2012
The newly discovered Phoenix cluster may be one of the most extreme objects ever observed, being among the most...
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The Gates Foundation Issues Toilet Challenge
By the Editor on August 16, 2012
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is hosting a competition to reinvent the toilet for the 2.5 billion people...
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Room-Temperature Maser Could Make Talking to Space Much Simpler
By the Editor on August 16, 2012
Scientists at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have managed to produce a solid-state maser — a device similar...
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The Border Between Primordial Plasma and Ordinary Matter
By the Editor on August 16, 2012
Scientists taking advantage of the versatility and new capabilities of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), an atom smasher...
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