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Ancient Bones That Tell a Story of Compassion
While it is a painful truism that brutality and violence are at least as old as humanity, so, it...
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State of the World’s Science
The pursuit of knowledge is now a global enterprise. Scientific American and Nature have teamed up on this special...
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NASA Crashes Twin Probes Into the Moon
NASA concluded its Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) moon mission by crashing two probes into the lunar surface...
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Exploding Star Missing From Formation of Solar System
A new study challenges the notion that the force of an exploding star forced the formation of the solar...
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Multidimensional Black Holes Get Electric When Flexed
Bending a black hole can juice it up. In extra dimensions, a black hole behaves like a fluid and...
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Andromeda’s Bling: Tiny Greedy Quasar Found
When we talk of quasars, we think: early universe; angry black holes in the centers of galaxies; gobs of...
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Higgs Data Reveals Fundamental Structure of Matter
The 12 matter particles we know about are all the types there are, according to researchers analysing CERN data....
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Forget Extinct: The Brontosaurus Never Even Existed
It may have something to do with all those Brontosaurus burgers everyone’s favorite modern stone-age family ate, but when...
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‘Marine’ Fossils May Instead Represent Early Land Dwellers
The fossils of various frondlike and sacklike organisms that supposedly lived at the bottom of ancient oceans may actually...
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Primate Species: New Slow Loris Found in Borneo
A new species of small nocturnal primate has been discovered by scientists in Borneo. The primate is a type of...