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Strange Gamma-Ray Objects in Deep Space Perplex Scientists
The universe is filled with high-energy radiation, much of which is made of gamma rays belched out by strange...
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Global Warming Started More Than 100 Years Ago
It’s widely believed that global warming began in the 1970s, but new ocean temperature readings show that the Earth...
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Electricity and Carbon Dioxide Used to Generate Alternative Fuel
Imagine being able to use electricity to power your car – even if it’s not an electric vehicle. Researchers...
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Bostrum: We’re Underestimating the Risk of Human Extinction
Unthinkable as it may be, humanity, every last person, could someday be wiped from the face of the Earth....
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PTSD Study Could Lead to New Therapies, Screenings
Why do some persons succumb to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) while others who suffered the same ordeal do not?...
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Survey Gets a Grip on Dark Energy
Astronomers have measured the precise distance to over a quarter of a million galaxies to gain new insights into...
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On Free Will, the Singularity and the Quest to Crack Consciousness
From John Horgan’s Cross-Check blog at SciAm: A professor at Caltech, Christof Koch helped popularize consciousness as a topic for...
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Human Engineering Could Fight Climate Change
So far, conventional solutions to global warming — new government policies and changes in individual behavior — haven’t delivered....
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Conservatives Losing Trust in Science
Politically conservative Americans have lost trust in science over the last 40 years while moderates and liberals have remained...
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For Science Ph.D.’s, There Is No One True Path
Last April the scientific journal Nature published a series of articles on the overproduction of Ph.D.’s in the sciences....