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Ocean Acidification Disrupting Food Chains
Shellfish respond to increasing acidification in seawater – such as that produced by climate change – by producing lighter,...
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It Takes a Cooperative to Raise a Child
The supply of children in U.S. foster care far exceeds the demand for their adoption. Indeed, only one in...
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Fluctuating Weather Makes Birds More Flexible Singers
Mixing it up helps birds ensure that their songs are heard no matter what the habitat, say researchers at...
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Mysterious Black Hole Type Perplexes, Bewilders
Billions of times the mass of our own sun, so-called massive black holes present a baffling mystery with clues...
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Apocalypse Now and Then: Our Global Death Wish
Two recent scholarly works on millennialism leave this reviewer with a new understanding of the perverse human yearning for...
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Evolving a Green High-Rise
Check out this high-rise in France’s Boulogne-Billancourt re-imagined as an urban eco-village, bursting with greenery. The Natural Evolution building...
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Star’s ‘Cry’ Heralds New Era for Testing Relativity
Last year, astronomers discovered a quiescent black hole in a distant galaxy that erupted after shredding and consuming a...
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A Step-By-Step Guide to the Mars Rover Landing Plan
At 10:31 p.m. PDT on Aug. 5, after nearly nine months of travel, NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission (with...
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Immortality Studies Centered at UC Riverside Get $5-Million Gift
Even a multimillion-dollar donation does not ensure a spot in heaven. Or at least that’s what most religions believe....
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Despite Extreme Melt, Signs of Hope Emerge for Greenland Ice
One of the primary forces behind climate change-driven sea level rise is the Greenland Ice Sheet. Covering 80% of...