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Energy Poverty Creating Respiratory Disease Epidemic
Limited access to clean sources of energy, known as energy poverty, makes nearly half the world’s population reliant on...
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Organic Foods Can Be Loaded With Arsenic
As virtuous as you might feel when you choose organic foods sweetened with brown rice syrup instead of high-fructose...
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Swiss ‘Janitor Satellites’ to Remove Space Junk
The tidy Swiss want to clean up space. Swiss scientists plan to launch a “janitor satellite” — a 10-million-franc...
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Leaked: A Plan To Teach Climate Change Skepticism in Schools
Internal documents have been leaked from the Heartland Institute, a Chicago nonprofit think tank, showing its funding of leading...
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500 Million Children ‘Stunted By Hunger’
Half a billion children could grow up physically and mentally stunted over the next 15 years because they do...
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Quantum Dots Control Brain Cells For the First Time
In an unlikely marriage of quantum physics and neuroscience, tiny particles called quantum dots have been used to control...
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In China, Electric Cars Are More Polluting than Gas Guzzlers
It turns out that the use of electric vehicles may not be that clean after all, particularly in the...
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Online Dating Gets Religion
Jeff is ready to get married. As an Orthodox Jew, Jeff* is not leaving anything to chance: He prays...
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President’s 2013 Budget Hits Planetary Science Hard
The president’s 2013 budget asks for modest increases for some federal science agencies but trims funding to NASA. The...
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Marilynne Robinson: Reclaiming a Sense of the Sacred
Over the years of writing and teaching, I have tried to free myself of constraints I felt, limits to...