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Origin of Intelligence, Mental Illness Linked to Ancient Genetic Accident
Scientists have discovered for the first time how humans — and other mammals — have evolved to have intelligence....
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Dust Grains Highlight the Path to Planet Formation
An international team of researchers studying the characteristics of the protoplanetary disk of the star UX Tauri A, have...
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‘The Particle at the End of the Universe’ Gets Real
Caltech physicist Sean Carroll makes the search for the Higgs boson a scientific detective story. At heart is the...
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5 Charts About Climate Change That Should Have You Very, Very Worried
Two major organizations released climate change reports this month warning of doom and gloom if we stick to our...
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Was the Grand Canyon Formed When Dinosaurs Roamed?
The awe-inspiring Grand Canyon was probably carved about 70 million years ago, much earlier than thought, a provocative new...
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Scientists Discover Frozen Organic Material on Mercury
Messenger spacecraft finds substances similar to tar or coal in craters on planet nearest sun
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Human Evolution Enters Exciting New Phase
If you could escape the human time scale for a moment, and regard evolution from the perspective of deep...
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Collective Intelligence: A Dialogue With Thomas W. Malone
As all the people and computers on our planet get more and more closely connected, it’s becoming increasingly useful...
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Gargantuan Black Hole Baffles Scientists
A hunt for supermassive black holes reveals a monstrous one at the heart of galaxy NGC 1277, which may...
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A World Without History
According to Aristotelian philosophy, earth was eternal, a world without history and with no end. Only with the advent...