BIG Problems – Page 102

Climate Armageddon: How the World’s Weather Could Run Amok
By the Editor on May 26, 2012
Adapted from The Fate of the Species: Why the Human Race May Cause Its Own Extinction and How We Can...
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Cloaking Idea Traps a Rainbow
By the Editor on May 26, 2012
Researchers have trapped a rainbow – slowing light to a near-stop – in an array of 25,000 “invisibility cloaks”,...
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American Physics Dreams Deferred
By the Editor on May 25, 2012
When three American astronomers won the Nobel Prize in Physics last year, for discovering that the expansion of the...
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Device May Let Humans Communicate With Dolphins
By the Editor on May 25, 2012
A new dolphin speaker device could one day help us talk with these remarkably intelligent life forms, scientists say....
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‘Tractor Beams’ of Light Pull Small Objects Towards Them
By the Editor on May 25, 2012
‘Tractor beams’ of light that pull objects towards them are no longer science fiction. Haifeng Wang at the A*STAR...
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Leaf ‘Stamp’ Could Detect Crop Diseases
By the Editor on May 25, 2012
Crop diseases could be detected earlier and more easily if a new method that stamps a leaf with a...
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Climate Pact Process Stumbles as Countries Bicker
By the Editor on May 25, 2012
Less than six months after the world agreed to craft a new climate pact by 2015, negotiations stumbled at...
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Has Civilization Passed the Environmental Point of No Return?
By the Editor on May 24, 2012
Four decades ago, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer model called World3 warned of a possible catastrophic course for...
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Will Technology Kill Humanity?
By the Editor on May 24, 2012
Species don’t hang around forever. Homo sapiens has already notched up a mind-boggling 200,000 years on Earth. Is the...
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Ancient Bethlehem Seal Unearthed in Jerusalem
By the Editor on May 24, 2012
Archaeologists digging at a Jerusalem site have found the oldest artifact that bears the inscription of Bethlehem -- a...
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