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Was the Universe Born Whirling?
If the idea stands up, it is a bombshell. The universe is not the same wherever you look; it...
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E.O. Wilson’s Theory of Everything
At 82, the famed biologist E.O. Wilson arrived in Mozambique last summer with a modest agenda—save a ravaged park;...
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What Should Be the Top Environmental Priority for the Next 40 Years?
Experts speakers argue their cases.
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What Will Happen to Us?
Serious futurologists are not a large group yet. “It’s a fairly new area of inquiry,” says Nick Bostrom, an...
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Agriculture’s Role in Our Societies Not So Simple
The tidy picture of seemingly inevitable social “progress” following the appearance of domesticated plants is challenged by a study...
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Genetic Mutation May Have Led to Rise of Humans
A genetic mutation possibly linked to malarial resistance may have helped drive the evolution of the genus Homo, humans’...
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New Geological Epoch Made by Humans
Welcome to the warm Anthropocene. The growing volume of global temperature data adds to the evidence that we have...
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Opinion: The Universe, Dark Energy, and Us
Even in stringent times, it seems like a good idea to do some science to find out what the...
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Crazy Cosmic Lens Focuses on Dark Matter
Scientists are using funhouse images of faraway galaxies to learn how dark matter shaped the cosmos we see today.
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Denisovan DNA in the Islands, and an Australian Genome
Many human geneticists have argued our present pattern of diversity originated in a wave of successive founder effects coming...