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Should We Expect Other Earth-like Planets at All?
This year has been a spectacular one for exoplanets. New discoveries and new insights have truly pushed the gateway...
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Fighting Poverty By Giving Poor People Money
From Mattew Yglesias and the Slate MoneyBox blog: There’s more to life than just this, but I’ve come to think that...
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Erratic Environment May Be Key to Human Evolution
At Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania, where excavations helped to confirm Africa was the cradle of humanity, scientists now...
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Deforestation in Amazon Is Bad News for Microbes
Scientists have found that deforestation not only affects the diversity of plants and animals, but is bad news for...
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Just in Time for the Holidays: Endangered Species Condoms
The next time you think about having sex without birth control, The Center for Biological Diversity wants to make...
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Space Company Tests Reusable Rocket
A Southern California-based space company has successfully tested a reusable rocket it hopes will make it cheaper to go...
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Christmas Celebrations Around the World
From Mayanmar to Lithuania, and Jerusalem to Vatican City, the faithful gathered on Christmas 2012 in churches around the...
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Jupiter, Moon Align in Christmas Skywatching Treat
As darkness falls on Christmas night, check out the east-southeast sky. Shining brilliantly to the upper left of the...
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Commerce Claus: The Behavioral Economics of Christmas
Some economists dislike Christmas. They allege that it “destroys value,” which is, in Econoland, the first and only sin....
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Pagan Roots? 5 Surprising Facts About Christmas
When you gather around the Christmas tree or stuff goodies into a stocking, you’re taking part in traditions that...