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Top Predators Key to Extinctions as Planet Warms
By the Editor on June 22, 2012
Global warming may cause more extinctions than predicted if scientists fail to account for interactions among species in their...
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Water in Mars’ Mantle Raises Possibility it Sustained Life
By the Editor on June 22, 2012
The amount of water in places of the Martian mantle is vastly larger than previous estimates and is similar...
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Does Analytic Thinking Really Erode Religious Belief?
By the Editor on June 22, 2012
Neuroscience is new enough, and our desire for brain facts is strong enough, that dubious claims about brain types...
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Voyager to Become First Man-Made Object to Exit Solar System
By the Editor on June 22, 2012
Voyager will soon become the first man-made object to leave the solar system, scientists from NASA say. Voyager 1,...
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First Brain Map of Love and Desire
By the Editor on June 22, 2012
Thanks to modern science, we know that love lives in the brain, not in the heart. But where in...
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Rio: Pollution Rife Amid U.N. Environment Conference
By the Editor on June 22, 2012
For the 50,000 visitors from 190 countries streaming in for the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development, the welcome in...
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Beyond Higgs: on Supersymmetry (or Lack Thereof)
By the Editor on June 21, 2012
With the search for the Higgs boson, the last missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics, apparently...
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Bizarre Alien Planets Get Cozy With Each Other
By the Editor on June 21, 2012
A duo of planets some 1,200 light years from earth have been spotted passing within 1.2 million miles of...
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A Fortnight of Facts About Religious Liberty
By the Editor on June 21, 2012
A ‘set-the-record-straight’ post from the Washington Post’s Figuring Faith blog: U.S. Catholic bishops have launched the “Fortnight for Freedom,”...
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Killings of Environmentalists Appear to Be on the Rise
By the Editor on June 21, 2012
Around the world, sticking up for the environment can be deadly, and it appears to be getting deadlier. People...
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