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  • Hyenas Give Up Scavenging for Lent

    By on April 5, 2012

    Many Christians give up certain foods for Lent, however ecologists have discovered these changes in human diet have a...

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  • Carbon Dioxide Linked to End of Last Ice Age

    By on April 5, 2012

    The circumstances that ended the last ice age, somewhere between 19,000 and 10,000 years ago, have been unclear. In...

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  • LHC is Back With Big Energy Boost

    By on April 5, 2012

    The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is operating again after its winter break. At the beginning of April, opposing stable...

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  • Crowdfunding Successes Show Value of Small Donations

    By on April 5, 2012

    Legislation making its way through U.S. Congress would allow anyone to invest in the latest cool idea, with the...

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  • Genetic Mutation Linked to Autism Risk

    By on April 5, 2012

    Newly found gene mutations tied to autism may one day help scientists classify types of the developmental disorder and...

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  • The King of the Feathered Dinosaurs

    By on April 4, 2012

    The discovery of a giant meat-eating dinosaur sporting a downy coat has some scientists reimagining the look of Tyrannosaurus...

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  • Ants Share Pathogens for Immunity

    By on April 4, 2012

    Ants put an active effort into developing social immunity, the phenomenon whereby contact with infected individuals can confer resistance...

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  • E.O. Wilson on Why Humans Need a Tribe

    By on April 4, 2012

    Everyone, no exception, must have a tribe, an alliance with which to jockey for power and territory, to demonize...

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  • Scholarship, Liberated From Paper at Last

    By on April 4, 2012

    The evolution of digital scholarship is astounding. Today almost all research papers are born digital. Words, images, data, models—all...

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  • Consciousness Does Not Reside Here

    By on April 4, 2012

    What is the relation between selective attention and consciousness? When you strain to listen to the distant baying of...

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