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Leakey: Evolution Debate Will Soon Be History
Noted paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey says scientific discoveries may soon make the debate over evolution a part of history. The...
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Cultural Beliefs, Not Science Education Split Climate Views
Global warming skeptics are not less educated about science but rather use their knowledge to affirm their predetermined beliefs....
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Unusual Quantum Effect Discovered in Photosynthesis
Quantum physics and plant biology seem like two branches of science that could not be more different, but surprisingly...
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Shifting Trade Routes May Have Been Root Cause of Mayan Decline
The end of the classic Mayan civilization in the lowlands of Mesoamerica was likely expedited by shifting trade routes...
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What-If and What-Is: The Role of Speculation in Science
Speculation is an essential part of science, but how does it fit in? Two recent publications, both about the...
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Zoos’ Bitter Choice: To Save Some Species, Letting Others Die
As the number of species at risk of extinction soars, zoos are increasingly being called upon to rescue and...
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Earth Took 10 Million Years to Recover From Mass Extinction
The Earth’s greatest mass extinction, 250 million years ago, was so severe that it took 10 million years for...
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Climate Armageddon: How the World’s Weather Could Run Amok
Adapted from The Fate of the Species: Why the Human Race May Cause Its Own Extinction and How We Can...
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Cloaking Idea Traps a Rainbow
Researchers have trapped a rainbow – slowing light to a near-stop – in an array of 25,000 “invisibility cloaks”,...
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American Physics Dreams Deferred
When three American astronomers won the Nobel Prize in Physics last year, for discovering that the expansion of the...