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What Happened Before the Big Bang?
By the Editor on January 19, 2012
What existed before the big bang? What is the nature of time? Is our universe one of many? On...
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Not By Asteroid Alone: Rethinking the Cretaceous Mass Extinction
By the Editor on January 19, 2012
At the end of the Cretaceous period some 65 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula,...
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Mysterious Galaxy Possibly Made of Dark Matter
By the Editor on January 19, 2012
A team of astronomers has identified a new galaxy that may be made completely of dark matter, the second...
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Rainforest in Transition: Is the Amazon Transforming before Our Eyes?
By the Editor on January 19, 2012
The Amazon rainforest is in flux, thanks to agricultural expansion and climate change. In other words, humans have “become...
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The Push for Federal GMO Labeling
By the Editor on January 18, 2012
The man behind the popular 2008 documentary Food, Inc. is out with a new project aimed at getting the...
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Say Cheese: Astronomers Aim To Take First Picture of Black Hole
By the Editor on January 18, 2012
Taking a picture of a black hole, an object so gravitationally bound that not even photons of light can...
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How Smarter Data Can Save U.S. Education
By the Editor on January 18, 2012
One reason No Child Left Behind is all but a failed initiative, is that one of its main metrics,...
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Education, Religion … Evolution?
By the Editor on January 18, 2012
The evidence is clear, as in a February 2009 Gallup Poll, taken on the eve of the 200th anniversary...
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Do Thrifty Brains Make Better Minds?
By the Editor on January 18, 2012
Might the miserly use of neural resources be one of the essential keys to understanding how brains make sense...
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The History of Science Informs Our Present and Future
By the Editor on January 18, 2012
Whether we are exploring our family genealogy or the genetic tree of our primate ancestors, all of us have...
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