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The Mystifying History of Neutrino Experiments
By the Editor on March 9, 2012
Late last year, scientists with the OPERA collaboration in Gran Sasso, Italy reported an incredible finding: neutrinos that appeared...
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Were Angels Just Lucid Dreams?
By the Editor on March 9, 2012
Participants in a recent study who were instructed to try to visualize angels during states of lucid dreaming had,...
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Google Buys Wind, Bets on Sun
By the Editor on March 8, 2012
Google is stepping up wind-power purchases to reduce emissions, even as it devotes most of its renewable energy investments...
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Transforming the Way We Die
By the Editor on March 8, 2012
Our cultural tendency is to avoid serious conversations about end of life, and mortality has become politically polarized, but...
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Hopes For Medical Advances Rise As Gene Sequencing Cost Falls
By the Editor on March 8, 2012
In Silicon Valley, the line between computing and biology has begun to blur in a way that could have...
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Is There a Conflict Between Science and Religion?
By the Editor on March 8, 2012
In a recent book — Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion and Naturalism — the philosopher Alvin Plantinga...
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Antimatter Goes Under the Microscope
By the Editor on March 8, 2012
The antimatter version of the hydrogen atom could soon finally give up its secrets. Scientists expect that antihydrogen will...
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Gorilla Joins the Genome Club
By the Editor on March 8, 2012
Researchers have deciphered the genetic code of the gorilla – the last of the Great Ape genuses to be...
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Scientists Closing in on ‘God Particle’
By the Editor on March 7, 2012
More scientists are getting closer in the search for the “God particle” of physics that would help explain the...
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Climate Pragmatism
By the Editor on March 7, 2012
In his Dot Earth blog, Andrew Revkin writes about Jonathan Foley, director of the Institute of the Environment at...
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