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Triple-Bonded Boron Opens New Chemical World
By the Editor on June 15, 2012
In a vacuum-sealed flask on a lab bench in Germany sits an emerald-green crystal that will cause some jaws...
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Ecodesign: The Bottom Line
By the Editor on June 15, 2012
If architecture is 'design for living', one of its greatest challenges is how to live with the masses of...
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Governments Make ‘Pitiful’ Progress on Oceans
By the Editor on June 15, 2012
Little has been done to protect marine life since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, conservation scientists conclude. On pledges...
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Analysis of Global Fire Risk Shows Big, Fast Changes Ahead
By the Editor on June 15, 2012
Climate change is widely expected to disrupt future fire patterns around the world, with some regions, such as the...
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NASA Launches Black Hole-Hunting Telescope
By the Editor on June 14, 2012
NASA’s hunting season has just begun, as the U.S. space agency launched its Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) spacecraft...
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First Painters May Have Been Neanderthal, Not Human
By the Editor on June 14, 2012
European cave paintings are older than previously thought, raising the possibility that Neanderthals rather than Homo sapiens were the...
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Shark-Headed Human Ancestor Swam With Fishes
By the Editor on June 14, 2012
Peer far enough back in the human family lineage, and you’ll find a fishy ancestor that looked surprisingly like...
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Alien Earths May Be Widespread in Our Milky Way Galaxy
By the Editor on June 14, 2012
Small, rocky planets can coalesce around a wide variety of stars, suggesting that Earth-like alien worlds may have formed...
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Unraveling the Bonobo’s Genome, and its Secrets
By the Editor on June 14, 2012
Ulindi, a female bonobo at the Leipzig Zoo in Germany, has had her genome sequenced, researchers reported, making bonobos...
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Electrons Become Both Heavy and Speedy
By the Editor on June 14, 2012
A Princeton University-led team of scientists has shown how electrons moving in certain solids can behave as though they...
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