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Ancient Temple, Ritual Figurines Found in Israel
Just outside of Jerusalem, archaeologists have discovered a cache of vessels and figurines inside a 2,750-year-old temple that could...
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Evidence Shows Starvation Did Not Cause Saber-Tooth Cat Extinction
In the period just before they went extinct, the American lions and saber-toothed cats that roamed North America in...
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New Form of Quantum Computation Will Challenge Ordinary Computers
You’ve heard the hype a hundred times: Physicists hope to someday build a whiz-bang quantum computer that can solve...
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Theory That Music Is Uniquely Human Is for the Birds
A bird listening to birdsong may experience some of the same emotions as a human listening to music, suggests...
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Low-Water Rivers Offering Up Glimpse of History
Lack of rain has left many rivers at low levels unseen for decades, and while this creates problems for...
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A God-Free Response to Mass Murder
To be sure, there were calls in the days after the mass murder in Newtown for a deep and...
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Fighting Poverty By Giving Poor People Money
From Mattew Yglesias and the Slate MoneyBox blog: There’s more to life than just this, but I’ve come to think that...
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Erratic Environment May Be Key to Human Evolution
At Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania, where excavations helped to confirm Africa was the cradle of humanity, scientists now...
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Deforestation in Amazon Is Bad News for Microbes
Scientists have found that deforestation not only affects the diversity of plants and animals, but is bad news for...
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Just in Time for the Holidays: Endangered Species Condoms
The next time you think about having sex without birth control, The Center for Biological Diversity wants to make...