BIG Problems – Page 29

Scientists Build With DNA Bricks
By the Editor on November 30, 2012
Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have coaxed single strands of DNA to fit together like Lego bricks and form...
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Like a Tree, Growth Rings Show Lobster Age
By the Editor on November 30, 2012
For the first time, scientists have figured out how to determine the age of a lobster — by counting...
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Human Evolution Enters Exciting New Phase
By the Editor on November 29, 2012
If you could escape the human time scale for a moment, and regard evolution from the perspective of deep...
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Collective Intelligence: A Dialogue With Thomas W. Malone
By the Editor on November 29, 2012
As all the people and computers on our planet get more and more closely connected, it’s becoming increasingly useful...
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NASA Pours Cold Water on Doomsday Prophecy
By the Editor on November 29, 2012
Quashing the ‘doomsday’ rumors, top NASA scientists have assured that the world won’t end on December 21, 2012. “The...
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A World Without History
By the Editor on November 28, 2012
According to Aristotelian philosophy, earth was eternal, a world without history and with no end. Only with the advent...
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Cracked Wheat: Scientists Make Inroads Into Wheat Genome
By the Editor on November 28, 2012
A consortium of scientists announced they had made major progress in deciphering the genome of bread wheat, a vital...
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2012 Arctic Ice Melt Larger Than Size of United States
By the Editor on November 28, 2012
Arctic sea ice reached its lowest extent on record and the first ten months of 2012 were among the...
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Culture Change Needed to Avert Growing Disaster Risk
By the Editor on November 28, 2012
A culture change is needed if the benefits of development, such as new jobs and hospitals, are not to...
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Atom Smasher Creates New Kind of Matter
By the Editor on November 28, 2012
Collisions between particles inside the Large Hadron Collider atom smasher have created what looks like a new form of...
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