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Continuous Learning Instead of “Lifelong Learning”
By the Editor on June 21, 2012
The problems engineers face are increasing in complexity at an exponential pace, and as one plenary speaker at the...
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A Windy Early Universe
By the Editor on June 21, 2012
The early universe was a vastly different place from the one we see today. No stars burned in faraway...
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Probe Reveals Ice Content of Moon’s Shackleton Crater
By the Editor on June 21, 2012
Up to 22 percent of the surfaces of Shackleton Crater, located near the moon’s south pole, may be water...
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Physics Community Afire With Rumors of Higgs Boson Discovery
By the Editor on June 20, 2012
One of the biggest debuts in the science world could happen in a matter of weeks: The Higgs boson...
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Tending the Body’s Microbial Garden
By the Editor on June 20, 2012
For a century, doctors have waged war against bacteria, using antibiotics as their weapons. But that relationship is changing...
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Once-Green Sahara Hosted Early African Dairy Farms
By the Editor on June 20, 2012
The sandy dunes of the Sahara may seem an unlikely place for a dairy farm, but about 7,000 years...
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Rudimentary Liver Grown in vitro
By the Editor on June 20, 2012
Japanese scientists have used induced stem cells to create a liver-like tissue in a dish. Although they have yet...
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Red List Counts ‘On the Brink’ Species
By the Editor on June 20, 2012
East Asia’s status as the world’s main “extinction hotspot” is confirmed in the new Red List of Threatened Species,...
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Euclid Mission to Probe Universe’s Darkest Secrets Approved
By the Editor on June 20, 2012
The first-ever mission dedicated to looking for dark matter and dark energy, two mysterious entities believed to explain the...
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Warming, Melting Sea Ice Threaten Antarctic’s Emperor Penguins
By the Editor on June 20, 2012
The Emperor penguin’s future is looking bleak if global temperatures continue to rise and melt sea ice, scientists have...
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