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Plant Diversity is Key to Productive Vegetation
By the Editor on May 4, 2012
Vegetation, such as a patch of prairie or a forest stand, is more productive in the long run when...
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Early North Americans Lived With Extinct Giant Beasts
By the Editor on May 4, 2012
A new University of Florida study that determined the age of skeletal remains provides evidence humans reached the Western...
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Odd Ways the Mind Warps Time
By the Editor on May 4, 2012
Time, arguably our most precious nonrenewable resource, has a slippery nature in our minds. Sometimes it flows quickly. In...
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Keeping an Eye on Earth Is Getting Harder
By the Editor on May 3, 2012
The ability of U.S. scientists to monitor changes in the planet’s climate, natural hazards, and land surface continues to...
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Research Censorship Called Problematic
By the Editor on May 3, 2012
The editor of the world-leading scientific journal Nature says current procedures to assess and censor medical research potentially of...
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Plant Study Flags Dangers of Warming World
By the Editor on May 3, 2012
Plants flowering 8.5 times faster than predicted; changes have knock-on effect for food chain, ecosystems
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Can Atheist Billboards Kill Religion?
By the Editor on May 3, 2012
This spring, billboards sprouted across the country like cranky, God-hating daffodils. They proclaimed the bad news that God does...
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Human Societies Starting to Resemble Ant Colonies
By the Editor on May 3, 2012
The human population is growing at such a staggering rate that we are organizing ourselves more like ant supercolonies,...
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South Korea Steps Up Stem-Cell Work
By the Editor on May 3, 2012
The South Korean health ministry announced that research into stem cells and regenerative medicine will receive a funding boost...
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Is Global Warming Driven By Economic Growth?
By the Editor on May 2, 2012
To slow climate change the world will either have to put the brakes on economic growth or change the...
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