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Zapped Malaria Parasite Raises Vaccine Hopes
A malaria vaccine has become the first to provide 100% protection against the disease, confounding critics and far surpassing...
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Science Journalism and the Art of Expressing Uncertainty
Journalism is filled with examples of erroneous reporting turning into received opinion when reporters, editors, and the public take...
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The Era of Memory Engineering Has Arrived
It’s the premise of every third sci-fi thriller. Man wakes up to his normal seeming life, but of course...
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Mass extinctions: Small but deadly
AS EVERY schoolchild knows, the dinosaurs were wiped out in an instant, when a rock from outer space hit...
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101 Top Web Resources on Climate Change
EnvironmentalScienceDegree.com is an enormously helpful platform for anything and everything environmental. Their mission is to help environmentally conscious professionals...
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Economic Cosmology and the Evolutionary Challenge
Our paper discusses three very old “cosmologies” in Western thought, how these play out in economic theory, and how...
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The Scrotum Is Nuts
Soccer fans call it brave goalkeeping, the act of springing into a star shape in front of an attacker...
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Imagining the Invisible
On a recent visit to Pioneer Works in the Brooklyn Red Hook neighborhood, I heard a lecture by Matthew...
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Naked Mole Rats Reveal Why They Are Immune to Cancer
IF HUMANS lived as long relative to body size as naked mole rats, we would last for 600 years....