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Indo-Australian Tectonic Plate Is Breaking in Pieces
By the Editor on September 27, 2012
An 8.7 earthquake that struck west of Indonesia on April 11 was the biggest of its kind ever recorded...
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Yom Kippur: The Battle of Sin vs. Self
By the Editor on September 26, 2012
From Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie’s blog at Huffington Post: The Yom Kippur liturgy does not allow one to focus...
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Climate Bias at Fox, WSJ ‘Far Exceeded’ Rest of Media
By the Editor on September 26, 2012
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has just published a study criticizing Fox News Channel and the Wall Street...
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Eternal Clock Could Keep Time After Universe Dies
By the Editor on September 26, 2012
The idea for an eternal clock that would continue to keep time even after the universe ceased to exist...
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Death Without Religion
By the Editor on September 26, 2012
What do we do about death? How do we live with the fact of our mortality? Many (obviously) look...
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We Need More STEM Grads, and We Need Them Now
By the Editor on September 26, 2012
Nearly 1.5 million computing jobs will become available over the next five years. The problem is, even in this...
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NASA Wants to Send Astronauts Beyond the Moon
By the Editor on September 26, 2012
Top NASA officials have picked a leading candidate for the agency’s next major mission: construction of a new outpost...
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Hubble Captures Extraordinary View of Universe
By the Editor on September 26, 2012
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has produced one of its most extraordinary views of the Universe to date. Called...
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The Broken Beyond: How Space Turned Into an Office Park
By the Editor on September 25, 2012
Last summer the last Space Shuttle took its last space flight, but last week it took its last worldly...
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Want a Closer Look at Einstein’s Brain? There’s an App for That
By the Editor on September 25, 2012
If you have an iPad, you can take a closer look at one of history’s greatest minds. The National...
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