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Humble DNA Could Help Decipher Dark Matter
By the Editor on July 3, 2012
A few strands of DNA could help solve the mystery of dark matter. A newly proposed detector aims to...
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U.S. Scientists See Stronger Hints of Higgs
By the Editor on July 2, 2012
Hints of the Higgs boson detected last year by a US “atom smasher” have become even stronger, scientists have...
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Mass Extinctions Reset the Long-Term Pace of Evolution
By the Editor on July 2, 2012
A new study indicates that mass extinctions affect the pace of evolution, not just in the immediate aftermath of...
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How Will Obamacare Affect Scientific Research?
By the Editor on July 2, 2012
The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold President Barack Obama’s health care reform law has an impact in the form...
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Ancient Hunter-Gatherers Kept in Touch
By the Editor on July 2, 2012
Until about 8500 years ago, Europe was populated by nomadic hunter-gatherers who hunted, fished, and ate wild plants. Then,...
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Why Chimps Attack
By the Editor on July 2, 2012
Chimpanzees have made headlines in recent years for several unprovoked attacks against humans, the latest just recently at the...
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NASA: Space Station Science at Critical Point
By the Editor on July 2, 2012
It’s time to get serious about science in space, and the International Space Station is the perfect place to...
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Phylogeny: Rewriting Evolution
By the Editor on June 30, 2012
Tiny molecules called microRNAs are tearing apart traditional ideas about the animal family tree.
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Evo-Bio of Religion: Overshoot Hypotheses, Continued
By the Editor on June 30, 2012
From David Barash at The Chronicle’s Brainstorm blog: When it comes to evolution and human beings, what we don’t...
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Could LHC Discover Particle Behind Both Mass and Cosmic Inflation?
By the Editor on June 29, 2012
Within a sliver of a second after it was born, our universe expanded staggeringly in size, by a factor...
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