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2012 Arctic Ice Melt Larger Than Size of United States
Arctic sea ice reached its lowest extent on record and the first ten months of 2012 were among the...
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Culture Change Needed to Avert Growing Disaster Risk
A culture change is needed if the benefits of development, such as new jobs and hospitals, are not to...
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Atom Smasher Creates New Kind of Matter
Collisions between particles inside the Large Hadron Collider atom smasher have created what looks like a new form of...
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Biggest Black Hole Blast Ever Could Solve Cosmological Mystery
Astronomers have seen a distant galaxy that blasts away material with two trillion times the energy the sun emits...
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The Blue Whale’s Acrobatic Ambush
Blue whales perform underwater acrobatics to attack their prey from below, scientists have found. The massive mammals are known...
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Model Sheds Light on Chemistry That Sparked Origin of Life
The question of how life began on a molecular level has been a longstanding problem in science. However, recent...
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To Make Better Decisions in Education, Break Some Boundaries
The persistent economic problems facing higher education these days make it evident that the financial models of most institutions...
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Ancient Microbes Found in Buried Antarctic Lake
Beneath the icy surface of a buried Antarctic lake, in super-salty water devoid of light and oxygen that is...
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U.S. House Set to Vote Again on STEM Visa Bill
For a second time in as many months, U.S. House Republicans will try to win approval of legislation to...
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DOE, NASA Testing Fission Reactor for Spaceflight
Researchers from NASA and the Department of Energy have demonstrated a nuclear reactor that could power spaceflight. It’s nowhere...