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GE Rejects Republicans’ Climate Change Doubts
By the Editor on March 12, 2012
General Electric has brushed aside the doubts leading Republican presidential contenders have raised about climate science. The U.S. industrial...
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Study Reveals Toxins Even in ‘Safer’ Products
By the Editor on March 9, 2012
Consumer products such as shampoos and sunscreens, even ones touted as safer, may contain potentially harmful chemicals not listed...
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Pacific Nation May Move Entire Population to Fiji
By the Editor on March 9, 2012
Fearing that climate change could wipe out their entire Pacific archipelago, the leaders of Kiribati are considering an unusual...
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Plant Movement From Climate Change Revealed in Interactive Map
By the Editor on March 9, 2012
Nationwide, gardeners have been experimenting with their newly assigned plant hardiness zones, a guide provided by the USDA that...
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Miller v. Shermer: Debating the Compatibility of Science and Religion
By the Editor on March 9, 2012
Do you believe in God? Or do you put your faith in science? Some argue that it has to...
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Were Angels Just Lucid Dreams?
By the Editor on March 9, 2012
Participants in a recent study who were instructed to try to visualize angels during states of lucid dreaming had,...
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Google Buys Wind, Bets on Sun
By the Editor on March 8, 2012
Google is stepping up wind-power purchases to reduce emissions, even as it devotes most of its renewable energy investments...
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Hopes For Medical Advances Rise As Gene Sequencing Cost Falls
By the Editor on March 8, 2012
In Silicon Valley, the line between computing and biology has begun to blur in a way that could have...
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Is There a Conflict Between Science and Religion?
By the Editor on March 8, 2012
In a recent book — Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion and Naturalism — the philosopher Alvin Plantinga...
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Scientists Closing in on ‘God Particle’
By the Editor on March 7, 2012
More scientists are getting closer in the search for the “God particle” of physics that would help explain the...
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