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World Matched Record for Hottest September – Again
By the Editor on October 16, 2012
The globe last month matched a record for the hottest September, set in 2005. It was the third time...
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How First Life Forms Might Have Packaged RNA
By the Editor on October 15, 2012
Researchers at Penn State University have developed a chemical model that mimics a possible step in the formation of...
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Apollo Rocks Analysis: Solar Wind Made Moon Water
By the Editor on October 15, 2012
Analyzing grains of soil collected from three Apollo lunar missions, geochemists have figured out that the hydrogen in trace...
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Conservationists Reveal the World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates
By the Editor on October 15, 2012
A new report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) highlights the world’s 25 most endangered primates....
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Fly Genomes Show Natural Selection
By the Editor on October 15, 2012
When ancestral humans walked out of Africa tens of thousands of years ago, Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies came along...
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24 Miles, 4 Minutes and 834 M.P.H., All in One Jump
By the Editor on October 15, 2012
A man fell to Earth from more than 24 miles high, becoming the first human to break the sound...
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Americans Win Nobel Economics Prize
By the Editor on October 15, 2012
Two American economists won the Nobel Prize in economics for their research into how to match different actors in...
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Researchers Find Trigger for Explosive Volcanic Eruptions
By the Editor on October 15, 2012
Scientists from the Univ. of Southampton have identified a repeating trigger for the largest explosive volcanic eruptions on Earth....
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Scientists Observe Quantum Effects in Cold Chemistry
By the Editor on October 13, 2012
At very low temperatures, close to absolute zero, chemical reactions may proceed at a much higher rate than classical...
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Is a Train-Wreck Looming for Social Psychology?
By the Editor on October 13, 2012
Daniel Kahneman sent an e-mail last week to a dozen social psychologists, spelling out what he sees as a...
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