BIG Problems – Page 44

Of Earthquakes and Human Responsibility
By the Editor on October 23, 2012
From Slate’s Future Tense blog: A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience indicates that human activity triggered a...
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Sex and Space Travel: Predictions From the 1950s
By the Editor on October 23, 2012
Outside of science fiction, the topic of sex in space has received surprisingly scant attention. But it was science...
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How Fear Can Skew Spatial Perception
By the Editor on October 23, 2012
Are you overcome by ophidiophobia when you come across a snake in the wild? As it turns out, the...
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Evidence of Viking Outpost Found in Canada
By the Editor on October 23, 2012
For the past 50 years—since the discovery of a thousand-year-old Viking way station in Newfoundland—archaeologists and amateur historians have...
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Fish Can Cloak, Become Invisible to Predators
By the Editor on October 22, 2012
Silver-colored fish, such as herring, sardines and sprat, are bending the laws of physics, according to a new study...
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Could Solar Geoengineering Prove Effective?
By the Editor on October 22, 2012
Geoengineering has been a hot topic of late and now comes a new study looking at the possibility of...
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Breakthrough Offers New Route to Large-Scale Quantum Computing
By the Editor on October 22, 2012
In a key step toward creating a working quantum computer, Princeton researchers have developed a method that may allow...
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Ancient DNA Sheds Light on Arctic Whale Mysteries
By the Editor on October 20, 2012
Scientists have published the first range-wide genetic analysis of the bowhead whale using hundreds of samples from both modern...
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Global Mobility: Science Mapped Out
By the Editor on October 19, 2012
A special issue of Nature examines the changing global landscape of research.
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“Lethally Hot” Earth Was Devoid of Life—Could It Happen Again?
By the Editor on October 19, 2012
Extinctions during the early Triassic period left Earth a virtual wasteland, largely because life literally couldn’t take the heat,...
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