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Climate Science Makes an Eleventh-Hour Comeback
By the Editor on December 31, 2012
This was the year climate change vanished from the political agenda – and then suddenly reappeared, after Hurricane Sandy...
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Space Radiation May Accelerate Alzheimer’s in Astronauts
By the Editor on December 31, 2012
Radiation in space might harm the brains of astronauts in deep space by accelerating the development of Alzheimer’s disease,...
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As Forests Disappear, Examining the Mechanisms of Their Death
By the Editor on December 29, 2012
Everywhere, trees are dying. The boreal forests of Canada and Russia are being devoured by beetles. Drought-tolerant pines are...
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New Kind of Magnetism Discovered
By the Editor on December 29, 2012
Following up on earlier theoretical predictions, MIT researchers have now demonstrated experimentally the existence of a fundamentally new kind...
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Extraterrestrial Oceans Could Host Life
By the Editor on December 28, 2012
NASA’s battle cry behind the small armada of orbiters, landers and rovers dispatched to Mars is “follow the water!”...
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Build the Death Star
By the Editor on December 28, 2012
Well, it’s taken 80 years, but the post–New Deal, post-military-industrial-complex mega-state has finally come up with a single good...
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The Next Steps in Space Exploration
By the Editor on December 28, 2012
Advocates of manned space flight have long argued that propelling people into orbits has a public appeal unmatched by...
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Tablet as Teacher: Poor Ethiopian Kids Learn ABCs
By the Editor on December 28, 2012
Using 20 tablet computers dropped off in their Ethiopian village in February by a group called One Laptop Per...
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Faith-Based Procrastination: Religious Job Bias in Taxpayer-Funded Program
By the Editor on December 28, 2012
No American should be denied a taxpayer-funded job because of what he or she believes about religion. Yet that’s...
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Turtle Study Shows Dark Side of Human Nature
By the Editor on December 28, 2012
Clemson University student Nathan Weaver set out to determine how to help turtles cross the road. He ended up...
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