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As U.S. Cleans Its Energy Mix, It Ships Coal Problems Abroad
Ready for some good news about the environment? Emissions of carbon dioxide in the United States are declining. But...
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‘Parallel Universe’ of Life Described Far Beneath the Bottom of the Sea
Deep beneath the ocean floor off the Pacific Northwest coast, scientists have described the existence of a potentially vast...
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New Results Confirm: The Particle Believed To Be The Higgs Boson Really Is The Higgs Boson
The Higgs Boson really, really is the Higgs Boson. At first, testing at the Large Hadron Collider revealed a...
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Are Viruses Alive?
Are viruses life forms or not? Scientists have been fighting about it for years, and Anthony has more on...
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Jesuits, science and a Pope with a chemistry degree: A productive pairing?
In 1915, an exceptionally bright Italian youngster walked the two miles from his home to the Campo dei Fiori...
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Curiosity Finds Evidence For a Habitable Ancient Mars
“We have found a habitable environment,” said John Grotzinger, project scientist for the Curiosity mission. “The water that was...
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The Three-Billion-Dollar Brain
Last week, the Human Connectome Project, supported jointly by sixteen components of the National Institutes of Health, released its...
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Stanford Psychologists Uncover Brain-Imaging Inaccuracies
Traditional methods of fMRI analysis systematically skew which regions of the brain appear to be activating, potentially invalidating hundreds...
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Global Warming Brings Trees to Arctic Tundra
As the planet warms, the Arctic is feeling the heat. Trees and shrubs are taking hold on what was...
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The Roots of Human Genius Are Deeper Than Expected
When in our evolution did we humans become so clever, so creative, so boundlessly ingenious? Writer Heather Pringle tackles...