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Scientists Discover Way To Communicate with Paralyzed
By the Editor on July 6, 2012
A neuroscience team has successfully translated signals in the brains of six healthy volunteers into letters to enable them...
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New Type of Black Hole Found—Relic of Early Universe?
By the Editor on July 6, 2012
There’s a strange new brute on the celestial block—the middleweight black hole, a new study says. After nearly three...
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Planet-Forming Disk Vanishes Into Thin Air
By the Editor on July 6, 2012
Some 460 light-years away in the constellation Centaurus, a thick disk of dust swirled around a young star named...
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How Cooperation Trumps Competition in Monkeys
By the Editor on July 5, 2012
Being the top dog – or, in this case, the top gelada monkey – is even better if the...
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Has Higher Education Become an Engine of Inequality?
By the Editor on July 5, 2012
Inequality is growing in the United States, and social mobility is slowing. A study by the Pew Charitable Trusts...
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Physicists Identify New Quantum State
By the Editor on July 5, 2012
A Kansas State University-led quantum mechanics study has discovered a new bound state in atoms that may help scientists...
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Giant Filament of Dark Matter Connects Galaxy Clusters
By the Editor on July 5, 2012
A giant string of invisible dark matter has been discovered across the universe between a pair of galaxy clusters....
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Nine Percent of Today’s Warming Caused By Preindustrial People
By the Editor on July 5, 2012
Humans started causing climate change long before the Industrial Revolution and the beginning of the fossil fuel era. A...
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Examining Alternative Medicines
By the Editor on July 5, 2012
As nonconventional medical treatments become increasingly mainstream, we take a look at the science behind some of the most...
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Health Apps Bump Up Against FDA
By the Editor on July 5, 2012
Health apps are hot, but until now the field has been unregulated. It is hard to know which apps...
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