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Genetic Mutation Linked to Autism Risk
Newly found gene mutations tied to autism may one day help scientists classify types of the developmental disorder and...
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Ants Share Pathogens for Immunity
Ants put an active effort into developing social immunity, the phenomenon whereby contact with infected individuals can confer resistance...
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E.O. Wilson on Why Humans Need a Tribe
Everyone, no exception, must have a tribe, an alliance with which to jockey for power and territory, to demonize...
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Scholarship, Liberated From Paper at Last
The evolution of digital scholarship is astounding. Today almost all research papers are born digital. Words, images, data, models—all...
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Self-Sculpting Sand Robots Can Duplicate Any Object
MIT researchers from the Distributed Robotics Laboratory are working on the very first steps towards nano-bot technology. In their...
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Environmental Rules: Job Killers or Job Creators?
The Environmental Protection Agency and the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, which reviews all proposed federal...
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Signing Tennessee Anti-Evolution Bill Into Law Would Be ‘Dumb’
Among its more dubious claims to fame, Tennessee was the site of the 1925 “Monkey Trial,” in which John...
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Thousands of Dolphins Dying in Gulf of Mexico
The dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico are in the midst of a massive die-off. The reasons why remain...
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Ph.D.s Are Leaving the Ivory Tower
Not so long ago, doctoral students were viewed as the galley slaves of the scientific world, spending long hours...
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Global Warming Started More Than 100 Years Ago
It’s widely believed that global warming began in the 1970s, but new ocean temperature readings show that the Earth...