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Sex and Space Travel: Predictions From the 1950s
By the Editor on October 23, 2012
Outside of science fiction, the topic of sex in space has received surprisingly scant attention. But it was science...
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How Fear Can Skew Spatial Perception
By the Editor on October 23, 2012
Are you overcome by ophidiophobia when you come across a snake in the wild? As it turns out, the...
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Evidence of Viking Outpost Found in Canada
By the Editor on October 23, 2012
For the past 50 years—since the discovery of a thousand-year-old Viking way station in Newfoundland—archaeologists and amateur historians have...
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Beluga Whale ‘Makes Human-Like Sounds’
By the Editor on October 22, 2012
Researchers in the U.S. have been shocked to discover a beluga whale whose vocalizations were remarkably close to human...
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Fish Can Cloak, Become Invisible to Predators
By the Editor on October 22, 2012
Silver-colored fish, such as herring, sardines and sprat, are bending the laws of physics, according to a new study...
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A Swedish Stonehenge? Stone Age Tomb May Predate English Site
By the Editor on October 22, 2012
A 5,500-year-old tomb possibly belonging to a Stone Age chieftain has been unearthed at a megalithic monument in the...
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Astronomers Study 2-Million-Light-Year ‘Extragalactic Afterburner’
By the Editor on October 22, 2012
Blasting over two million lights years from the centre of a distant galaxy is a supersonic jet of material...
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Could Solar Geoengineering Prove Effective?
By the Editor on October 22, 2012
Geoengineering has been a hot topic of late and now comes a new study looking at the possibility of...
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Women in STEM Fields: Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day
By the Editor on October 22, 2012
To quote the Finding Ada website, “Ada Lovelace Day is an international day celebrating the achievements of women in...
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Breakthrough Offers New Route to Large-Scale Quantum Computing
By the Editor on October 22, 2012
In a key step toward creating a working quantum computer, Princeton researchers have developed a method that may allow...
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