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Games for Science
By the Editor on January 2, 2013
Scientists are using video games to tap the collective intelligence of people around the world, while doctors and educators...
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The Life of Pi, and Other Infinities
By the Editor on January 2, 2013
The popular notion of infinity may be of a monolithic totality, the ultimate, unbounded big tent that goes on...
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Babies Begin Learning Language in the Womb
By the Editor on January 2, 2013
Babies only hours old are able to differentiate between sounds from their native language and a foreign language, scientists...
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Earthworms Roped Into Making Quantum Dots
By the Editor on January 2, 2013
Ordinary earthworms are proving to be a sophisticated chemistry lab: they can put together substances with unusual light-emitting properties....
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Bacterial Traces From 3.5 billion Years Ago Called Oldest Fossils
By the Editor on January 2, 2013
Scientists analyzing Australian rocks have discovered traces of bacteria that lived a record-breaking 3.49 billion years ago, a mere...
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Year in Science: 2013 Predictions
By the Editor on January 2, 2013
Science and technology have utterly transformed human life in the past few generations, and forecasts of the future used...
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Private Space Travel to Make Giant Leaps in 2013
By the Editor on January 2, 2013
Private companies building new spaceships to soar through orbital and suborbital space are looking forward to an action-packed year...
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2012: Top Ten Signs of a Warming World
By the Editor on January 2, 2013
Another year, another set of climate records. Here are the top ten signs you are living in a warming...
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Top Scientific Discoveries of 2012
By the Editor on January 2, 2013
There were many really big moments in science this year. From finding a long, long sought subatomic particle to...
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Undercover-ed Religion: 13 Stories That Went Missing in 2012
By the Editor on January 2, 2013
Storm and flood, bad bishops, nones on the bus, vegan leather queens, God’s mom: in this list Peter Laarman...
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