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Were Dinosaurs in Decline Before Mass Extinction?
By the Editor on May 1, 2012
Despite years of intensive research about the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs about 65.5 million years ago, a fundamental question...
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Study Shows Humans Are Still Evolving
By the Editor on May 1, 2012
Darwinian survival-of-the-fittest laws continue to shape human evolution in the modern age, research has shown.
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Matters of the Brain: Why Men and Women Are So Different
By the Editor on May 1, 2012
A prevalent understanding, particularly in the 1980s, was that boys and girls are born cognitively the same. It was...
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Culture, Not Biology, Shapes Language
By the Editor on April 30, 2012
From Barbara King at NPR’s 13:7, a blog set at the intersection of science and culture: There’s no language gene. There’s...
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‘Supersizing’ the College Classroom: 2,670 Students Share One Teacher
By the Editor on April 30, 2012
Conventional wisdom deems smaller classes superior. John Boyer a professor at Virginia Tech and a self-described “Podunk instructor,” calls...
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Odds of Finding Alien Life Boosted By Billions of Habitable Worlds
By the Editor on April 30, 2012
A new estimate of the number of habitable planets orbiting the most common type of stars in our galaxy...
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Study Indicates a Greater Threat of Extreme Weather
By the Editor on April 30, 2012
New research suggests that global warming is causing the cycle of evaporation and rainfall over the oceans to intensify...
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Orangutans Harbor Ancient Primate Alu
By the Editor on April 30, 2012
Alu elements infiltrated the ancestral primate genome about 65 million years ago. Once gained an Alu element is rarely...
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Concrete Plans Curb Creativity
By the Editor on April 30, 2012
Concrete Plans Curb Creativity: Planning ahead might make us overlook new solutions
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Large Wind Farms Increase Temperatures Near Ground
By the Editor on April 30, 2012
Large wind farms slightly increase temperatures near the ground as the turbines’ rotor blades pull down warm air, according...
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