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Oceans Acidifying Fastest in 300 Million Years Due to Emissions
By the Editor on March 2, 2012
The Earth’s oceans may be acidifying faster than at any point during the last 300 million years due to...
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Female Bonobos Have Social Climbing Sex
By the Editor on March 2, 2012
For female Bonobos, climbing the social ladder means having sex with the alpha female
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Modern Era Brings Death to Words
By the Editor on March 2, 2012
Analysis of books identifies lexical victims of shifting social, technological influences
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Giving Waste Water the Power to Clean Itself
By the Editor on March 2, 2012
A novel form of renewable energy can generate electricity from waste-water treatment
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Seeing An Ancient NY Forest Through Tree Fossils
By the Editor on March 1, 2012
Fossil hunters investigating the floor of a 385 million-year-old forest in an excavated upstate New York quarry found evidence...
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More Americans Now Believe in Global Warming
By the Editor on March 1, 2012
After several years of finding that fewer and fewer Americans believed in man-made climate change, pollsters are now finding...
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Is Neurotechnology Unethical?
By the Editor on March 1, 2012
Britain’s Nuffield Council on Bioethics, which examines ethical issues raised by new developments in biology and medicine, recently launched...
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New Twist in Antimatter Mystery
By the Editor on March 1, 2012
Physicists have taken a step forward in their efforts to understand why the Universe is dominated by matter, and...
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The Paradox Of Altruism
By the Editor on March 1, 2012
Charles Darwin regarded the problem of altruism—the act of helping someone else, even if it comes at a steep...
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Scientists Reconstruct Long-Extinct Giant Penguin
By the Editor on March 1, 2012
It was a slender bird, with long wings and a spear-like bill to catch swift ocean prey. And scientists...
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