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Bill McKibben Proposes Fossil Energy Divestment Drive
The highly influential environment activist Bill McKibben is proposing a fossil energy divestment campaign, on the model of the...
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Wiley and TED to Offer Educational Content, Promote Big Ideas
John Wiley has reached an agreement with TED, the nonprofit specializing in spreading discussions on technology, entertainment, design and...
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A Match Made in Cyberspace: How Networks Nurture Science
With the growth of online science networks, geography and economics no longer dictate how research is undertaken or published....
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Longevity Gene Makes Hydra Immortal and Humans Grow Older
Why do we get older? When do we die and why? Is there a life without ageing? For centuries,...
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Origins of Genetic Blending Between Europeans and Asians
A group of researchers led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona has discovered the first scientific evidence of genetic...
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Does Big Money Equal Better Science?
The search for the Higgs boson using the Large Hadron Collider at Cern has taken years of research and...
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The Science and Art of Listening
Hearing is a vastly underrated sense. We tend to think of the world as a place that we see,...
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A New Chapter of Solar Energy Conversion and Storage?
Using the power of the sun and ultrathin films of iron oxide (commonly known as rust), Technion-Israel Institute of...
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Wired for Harmony?
Stop that noise! Many creatures, such as human babies, chimpanzees, and chicks, react negatively to dissonance—harsh, unstable, grating sounds....
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Civilization Is Making Humanity Less Intelligent
The simplicity of modern life is making us more stupid, according to a scientific theory which claims humanity may...