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Brain’s Unconscious Bias Sways Decisions
By the Editor on October 11, 2012
If you’ve ever had to make a snap decision between two unfamiliar choices, you may want to thank your...
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Singing Mice Show Signs of Learning
By the Editor on October 11, 2012
Like songbirds and humans, male mice have brain circuits and behaviors they may use to learn some of their...
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Climate-Proofing the Insurance Industry
By the Editor on October 11, 2012
The world’s largest reinsurer has examined the recent rise in the number and severity of natural disasters worldwide, and...
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Peering Inside the Black Box
By the Editor on October 11, 2012
For much of the 20th century, the question of building mind from matter was considered so difficult that consciousness...
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A Diamond Bigger Than Earth?
By the Editor on October 11, 2012
Orbiting a star that is visible to the naked eye, astronomers have discovered a planet twice the size of...
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Space Travel: Pioneer Anomaly Solved?
By the Editor on October 10, 2012
The 100 Year Spaceship Symposium, an international event advocating human expansion into other star systems, has some crucial hurdles...
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Why Climate Change Is a Winning Political Strategy
By the Editor on October 10, 2012
He’s been called “America’s fiercest climate blogger.” And as a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a...
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Extending Einstein’s Theory Beyond Light Speed
By the Editor on October 10, 2012
University of Adelaide applied mathematicians have extended Einstein’s theory of special relativity to work beyond the speed of light....
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Large Water Reservoirs at the Dawn of Stellar Birth
By the Editor on October 10, 2012
ESA’s Herschel space observatory has discovered enough water vapor to fill Earth’s oceans more than 2000 times over, in...
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Unravelling the Ancient Urges That Drive Social Decisions of Fish
By the Editor on October 10, 2012
Researchers have discovered that a form of oxytocin—the hormone responsible for making humans fall in love—has a similar effect...
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