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Kinder Children Are More Popular
By the Editor on January 7, 2013
Performing deliberate acts of kindness makes pre-teen children more popular with their peers, say scientists. A team led by...
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Double-Star Systems Can Be Dangerous for Exoplanets
By the Editor on January 7, 2013
Alien planets born in widely separated two-star systems face a grave danger of being booted into interstellar space, a...
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The Value of Creativity and Imagination
By the Editor on January 5, 2013
SciAm excerpts Maria Konnikova’s “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes“: “It is surprising that people do not believe...
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Building Support for Locally Relevant Climate Tech
By the Editor on January 5, 2013
Climate Innovation Centers can promote clean technologies but need backing with a coordinated effort
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Titan Holds Clue to Faint Young Sun Paradox
By the Editor on January 4, 2013
Earth should have been an ice cube in the very early days of our solar system, when the sun...
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A Suggestion to Help Phase Out All-Male Panels at Tech Conferences
By the Editor on January 4, 2013
Dear Men, Have you noticed that a lot of the time it just seems like, gosh, there are a...
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Studying a Seemingly Immortal Species
By the Editor on January 4, 2013
Most people barely notice lichens, but Dr. Anne Pringle, a mycologist at Harvard, believes they may help answer one...
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Quantum Gas Temperature Drops Below Absolute Zero
By the Editor on January 4, 2013
Physicists have created a quantum gas capable of reaching temperatures below absolute zero and paving the way for future...
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The Kyoto Scorecard
By the Editor on January 4, 2013
The Kyoto Protocol on climate change used to be a big deal. So big that the future of humanity...
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NASA Considers Dragging Asteroid Into Orbit Around the Moon
By the Editor on January 4, 2013
Asteroids hold a great deal of scientific potential, but with our limitations on space travel, it’s exceedingly difficult to...
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