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The Art of Science Learning
It’s no secret: American children are behind in math and science, and falling faster by the year. For a...
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Studies of Deadly H5N1 Bird Flu Mutations Test Scientific Ethics
Dutch scientists have created a version of the deadly H5N1 bird flu that’s easily transmitted. In an unprecedented move,...
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Environmentalists Get Down to Earth
If there was a tougher moment over the last 40 years to be a leader in the American environmental...
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War Really Is Going Out of Style
The idea that war is obsolescent may seem preposterously utopian. Aren’t we facing an endless war on terror, a...
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Where Astronomy Meets Data
Brian P. Schmidt, 2011 Nobel Physics Prize winner, discusses his SkyMapper project, which is currently scanning the southern sky...
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Largest-Ever Simulation of the Universe Revealed
The purpose of the simulation is to reproduce the entire evolution of a universe made largely of cold dark...
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Add Quakes to Rumblings Over Gas Rush
Need to study induced seismicity in response to the string of suspicious quakes in shale-gas drilling areas.
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Hope in the Age of Man
The Anthropocene does not represent the failure of environmentalism. It is the stage on which a new, more positive...
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LHC Breaks Supersymmetry’s Beauty
Supersymmetry’s elegant mathematical structure was intended to replace the “standard model,” the eminently serviceable but sometimes creaky and in...
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Tantalizing Hints of Elusive Higgs Particle Announced
Two international teams of physicists have found subtle hints of what could be the Higgs boson, a particle whose...