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Worms Beat Beef As Sustainable Protein
By the Editor on December 20, 2012
Forget beef or even milk. If you’re looking for a sustainable and substantial source of protein, mealworms may be...
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Meet John Lott, the Man Who Wants to Arm America’s Teachers
By the Editor on December 20, 2012
In the debate over gun control sparked by the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, most gun-rights advocates...
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The Trash We’ve Left on the Moon
By the Editor on December 19, 2012
Recently, two probes that had spent the past year orbiting the moon for NASA’s GRAIL mission slammed into the...
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Human Wellbeing Can Strengthen Case for Conservation
By the Editor on December 19, 2012
The growing evidence linking green spaces to human wellbeing could help strengthen the case for conservation, a conference has...
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A Backdoor Way to Do Experiments on Exotic Gravitational Physics
By the Editor on December 19, 2012
The whole point of an explanation is to reduce something you don’t know to something you do. By that...
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Humans Changing Salinity of the Seas
By the Editor on December 19, 2012
When you hear about climate change it’s most often about melting glaciers and sea ice, increasing frequency of heatwaves...
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People May Be Stingier Than Thought
By the Editor on December 19, 2012
People may not be as generous to strangers as social scientists previously believed, at least if a new study...
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Tool-Using Orangutans Learn Like Humans
By the Editor on December 19, 2012
Even when they are very young, orangutans may start to form ideas about their world — specifically, how and...
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Another Earth Just 12 Light-Years Away?
By the Editor on December 19, 2012
Astronomers have discovered what may be five planets orbiting Tau Ceti, the closest single star beyond our solar system...
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Ancient Bones That Tell a Story of Compassion
By the Editor on December 18, 2012
While it is a painful truism that brutality and violence are at least as old as humanity, so, it...
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