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Device May Let Humans Communicate With Dolphins
By the Editor on May 25, 2012
A new dolphin speaker device could one day help us talk with these remarkably intelligent life forms, scientists say....
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‘Tractor Beams’ of Light Pull Small Objects Towards Them
By the Editor on May 25, 2012
‘Tractor beams’ of light that pull objects towards them are no longer science fiction. Haifeng Wang at the A*STAR...
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How the Transit of Venus Opened the Planet to Our Forefathers
By the Editor on May 25, 2012
It’s called the transit of Venus. The planet will appear as little dark circle on the sun as it...
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Leaf ‘Stamp’ Could Detect Crop Diseases
By the Editor on May 25, 2012
Crop diseases could be detected earlier and more easily if a new method that stamps a leaf with a...
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Climate Pact Process Stumbles as Countries Bicker
By the Editor on May 25, 2012
Less than six months after the world agreed to craft a new climate pact by 2015, negotiations stumbled at...
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World’s Oldest Musical Instruments Found in German Cave
By the Editor on May 25, 2012
Researchers have identified what they say are the oldest musical instruments in the world. The flutes, made from bird...
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Organic Molecules Do Have Martian Origins
By the Editor on May 24, 2012
Organic molecules — compounds that on Earth can be linked with life — encased within Martian meteorites now reveal...
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On the Origins of Language
By the Editor on May 24, 2012
Linguists know that languages change drastically over the course of a few thousand years, so drastically that there’s no...
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Has Civilization Passed the Environmental Point of No Return?
By the Editor on May 24, 2012
Four decades ago, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer model called World3 warned of a possible catastrophic course for...
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Will Technology Kill Humanity?
By the Editor on May 24, 2012
Species don’t hang around forever. Homo sapiens has already notched up a mind-boggling 200,000 years on Earth. Is the...
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