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Theorizing a Migratory Earth
Earth should be a “snowball planet,” according to common theories of stellar evolution that predict that the sun was...
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Was Egg-Laying the Beginning of the End for Dinosaurs?
The fact that dinosaurs laid eggs put them at a considerable disadvantage compared to viviparous mammals. Weighing in at...
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Social Factors Tied to Longevity More Than Race, Geography
In a novel study of health disparities in the United States, Stanford University School of Medicine researchers have identified...
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Brain Scans Can Predict Weight Gain and Sexual Activity
At a time when obesity has become epidemic in American society, Dartmouth scientists have found that functional magnetic resonance...
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Why Beauty Is Both Personal and Universal
As they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, however, the experience of being moved by art...
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Training Computers to Recognize Emotion
The Affective Computing Research Group, based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is working on computers that can read...
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Asteroid Impacts Could Benefit Underground Life
An incoming asteroid may benefit microbes living deep underground, according to a recent study of an ancient impact in...
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How Well, and How Poorly, We Harvest Ocean Life
To hear some people tell it, the increasingly energetic and sophisticated fishing industry has left the world’s oceans a...
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H3+: The Molecule that Made the Universe
In a study that pushed quantum mechanical theory and research capabilities to the limit, UA researchers have found a...
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Who Are Animal Scientists Really Serving?
Scores of animal scientists employed by public universities have helped pharmaceutical companies persuade farmers and ranchers to use antibiotics,...