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Why the World Needs Religious Studies
Walking around the AAR each year, I feel like I’m seeing Isaiah’s vision about wolves and lambs coming true—aside...
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Is the End of the World Really Nigh?
Look through the lens of science and “the end” becomes much more interesting.
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Hawking: Time to Go
British theoretical physicist Prof. Stephen Hawking says the colonization of outer space is key to the survival of humankind,...
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A Five-Step Program for Ending Our Oil Addiction
In Reinventing Fire, Rocky Mountain Institute provides a blueprint for transforming transportation and freight services with uncompromised convenience, safety...
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“New” Genes May Have Played a Role in Human Brain Evolution
When an international team of researchers scanned the human genome for “de novo” genes, they putatively uncovered 60, three...
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Quantum Theorem Shakes Foundations
At the heart of the weirdness for which the field of quantum mechanics is famous is the wavefunction, a...
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World’s Worst Die-Off: Hell on Earth
During the world’s biggest mass extinction, Earth seemed pretty close to a description of hell—fiery, smoky, and explosive—created by...
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View a Colossal Telescopic Eye Into the Cosmic Past
Recently, one of the four 8.2-metre telescopes that make up the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope captured the...
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Did Parasites Drive Human Evolution?
What if factors other than climate, like the food available nearby or the viruses, bacteria, and parasites native to...
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Future Wars May Be Fought by Synapses
Instead of the indiscriminate destruction of the atom bomb or napalm, the signature weapon of future wars may be...