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Climate Change: What We Do—and Don’t—Know
We can be certain about some things. For a start, the planet is warming, and human activity is largely...
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Commentary: New “World Class” Universities: Cutting Through the Hype
It would be tempting for poor and middle-income countries to think that a top-flight research institution is all that...
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Opinion: Occupy the Classroom
The single step that would do the most to reduce inequality has nothing to do with finance at all....
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Energy: Friend or Enemy?
A review of The End of Energy: The Unmaking of America’s Environment, Security, and Independence by Michael J. Graetz...
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Why the U.S. Needs to Learn More Science
If the U.S. wants to keep its prominence as a world power and technological innovator in the 21st century,...
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Cancer-Free Rodent Genome May Hold Key to Aging, Disease
Scientists announced that they have succeeded in sequencing the full genome of the naked mole rat, an exceptionally long-lived...
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Cities Will Feel Brunt as Global Population Passes 7 Billion
To Joel Cohen, a professor of populations at Columbia, whether the Earth will be able to sustain 7 billion...
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5 Books on Global Food Systems
From Colin Sage’s Environment and Food to Michael Carolan’s The Real Cost of Cheap Food, here are a handful...
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First-Ever Malaria Vaccine Found to Be Somewhat Effective in Humans
The world’s leading candidate for a malaria vaccine has cleared another hoop on the way to widespread use, proponents...
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What Is the Most Important Thing We Can Learn From India’s Religious History?
V.V. Raman says the most important thing the world can learn from India’s religious visions is the doctrine of...