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Summer Storms to Create New Ozone Holes as Earth Warms?
By the Editor on July 26, 2012
Summer storms may create new holes in our protective ozone layer as Earth heats up—bringing increased solar ultraviolet radiation...
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Innovation for Social Change
By the Editor on July 26, 2012
Innovation researcher Maria Clara Couto Soares calls for a new debate on expanding the reach of grassroots social innovations.
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Grand Canyon-Sized Rift Speeding Antarctic Ice Melt
By the Editor on July 26, 2012
A rift in the Antarctic rock as deep as the Grand Canyon is increasing ice melt from the continent,...
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Brain Sees Men as Whole, Women as Parts
By the Editor on July 26, 2012
A glimpse at the magazine rack in any supermarket checkout line will tell you that women are frequently the...
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Mindfulness Meditation Reduces Loneliness
By the Editor on July 26, 2012
A new study has provided the first evidence that mindfulness meditation reduces loneliness in older adults. The researchers, led...
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Anti-Matter Universe Sought By Space-Based Detector
By the Editor on July 25, 2012
A seven metric ton particle detector parked for over a year on the International Space Station (ISS) aims to...
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Kepler Spots Perfectly Aligned Alien Worlds
By the Editor on July 25, 2012
When NASA’s Kepler space telescope started finding planets at odd angles to their parent stars, scientists wondered if our...
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Forest ‘Disruption’ Greater Threat Than Climate Change
By the Editor on July 25, 2012
Deforestation of protected areas and illegal hunting of endangered species that live there has a greater impact on biodiversity...
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What Sally Ride Did For STEM Education
By the Editor on July 25, 2012
From the editors at SciAm: Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, died on July 23 of pancreatic...
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‘Impossible’ Stars Found in Super-Close Orbital Dances
By the Editor on July 25, 2012
Four pairs of what astronomers are calling “impossible stars” — stellar twins in orbits so close they defy explanation...
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