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100,000 AD: Living in the Deep Future
By the Editor on March 5, 2012
It’s fashionable to be pessimistic about our prospects, yet our species may very well endure for at least 100,000...
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Dark-Matter Behavior Puzzles Astronomers
By the Editor on March 5, 2012
Astronomers have spotted what appears to be a core of dark matter left behind from a wreck between massive...
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Why Our Culture Is in Our Genes
By the Editor on March 5, 2012
Scientists have long gotten used to the idea that bodies are just genes’ ways of making more genes, survival...
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You Have a Hive MInd
By the Editor on March 5, 2012
Every decision you make is essentially a committee act. Members chime in, options are weighed, and eventually a single...
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Modeling Strategy Can Help Trace Roots of Widespread Phenomena
By the Editor on March 5, 2012
Predicting the future is notoriously difficult, but uncovering the past can be just as tricky. Now researchers have developed...
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Why Loneliness Can Be Deadly
By the Editor on March 5, 2012
Loneliness can send a person down a path toward bad health, and even more intense loneliness, studies have shown....
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Crowdsourcing the Search For E.T.
By the Editor on March 3, 2012
The SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute is asking the public to join in its hunt for signals from...
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Scandinavian Trees May Have Survived Ice Age
By the Editor on March 3, 2012
Some Scandinavian trees survived the last Ice Age, challenging a widely held notion that they were killed off by...
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War on the World
By the Editor on March 2, 2012
How does war affect the planet? Research on this issue is pretty thin. The human and financial costs of...
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Music Can Change (the Way We See) the World
By the Editor on March 2, 2012
Could sad music be perpetuating our sullen views and upbeat tunes optimizing our optimistic outlook?
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