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  • At 70, Hawking Defies Disease

    By on January 6, 2012

    British scientist Stephen Hawking has decoded some of the most puzzling mysteries of the universe but he has left...

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  • Extinction Rate Likely Higher Than Predicted

    By on January 6, 2012

    As climate change progresses, the planet may lose more plant and animal species than predicted, a new modeling study...

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  • Higgs Result Means Elegant Universe Is Back in Vogue

    By on January 6, 2012

    After a short spell on the rocks, a mathematically elegant view of the universe is back in vogue. Recent...

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  • The Race to Document Biodiversity

    By on January 6, 2012

    The most extraordinary aspect of biodiversity is the way in which every living thing on earth, everything that has...

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  • Climate Change Concern Cools in UK

    By on January 5, 2012

    Over the past decade, as news on the looming threat from global warming has continued unabated and become increasingly...

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  • The God Effect: Ambition Drops With Temptation

    By on January 5, 2012

    God references slipped into tests decreased student’s belief that they controlled their own destiny, researchers report, but made them...

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  • The Big Snap

    By on January 5, 2012

    How’s it all going to end? Being a cosmologist, I’m not talking about our new year, but about our...

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  • Chimp Viruses for Human Vaccines

    By on January 5, 2012

    An adenovirus isolated from chimpanzee feces is proving more effective than human adenoviruses as a vaccine vector for hepatitis...

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  • Scientists’ New Time Masker Creates Invisibility

    By on January 5, 2012

    Scientists at Cornell University hid an event for 40 trillionths of a second, according to a study appearing in...

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  • What Hand You Favor Shapes Your Moral Space

    By on January 4, 2012

    Psychologist Daniel Casasanto and his team have shown that for left-handers, the left side of any space connotes positive...

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