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As Forests Disappear, Examining the Mechanisms of Their Death
Everywhere, trees are dying. The boreal forests of Canada and Russia are being devoured by beetles. Drought-tolerant pines are...
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New Kind of Magnetism Discovered
Following up on earlier theoretical predictions, MIT researchers have now demonstrated experimentally the existence of a fundamentally new kind...
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Build the Death Star
Well, it’s taken 80 years, but the post–New Deal, post-military-industrial-complex mega-state has finally come up with a single good...
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The Next Steps in Space Exploration
Advocates of manned space flight have long argued that propelling people into orbits has a public appeal unmatched by...
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Tablet as Teacher: Poor Ethiopian Kids Learn ABCs
Using 20 tablet computers dropped off in their Ethiopian village in February by a group called One Laptop Per...
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Faith-Based Procrastination: Religious Job Bias in Taxpayer-Funded Program
No American should be denied a taxpayer-funded job because of what he or she believes about religion. Yet that’s...
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Turtle Study Shows Dark Side of Human Nature
Clemson University student Nathan Weaver set out to determine how to help turtles cross the road. He ended up...
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British Team Abandons Drilling in Antarctic Lake
An ambitious British plan to search for minute forms of life in an ancient lake beneath Antarctica’s ice has...
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Will the First True ‘Alien Earth’ Be Found in 2013?
The first truly Earth-like alien planet is likely to be spotted next year, an epic discovery that would cause...
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The Multibillion-Dollar Threat to Research Universities
With each day, the so-called fiscal cliff looms larger as Congress and President Obama work to come to agreement...