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Benign Malaria Drove Human Evolution
The malaria species rampant in the Asia-Pacific region has been a significant driver of evolution of the human genome,...
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Obama and Romney on Climate Change Science
With the race to the White House heating up, it raises the question: where do the presidential candidates stand...
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The Power of Spinach
Spinach power has just gotten a big boost. An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Vanderbilt University have developed a...
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Creativity Crucial to Engineering Innovation
For a researcher who builds robots, Maurizio Porfiri credits his success to an unexpected source — literature. Paul Auster’s...
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Record Laser Pulse the Key to Hidden Quantum World
The most significant breakthrough in the laser pulse field in four years provides scientists with a new tool to...
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Species Multiply as Earth Heats Up
Rather than kicking off the expected cycles of extinction, periods of warming in Earth’s history were accompanied by increased...
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Tigers Take the Night Shift to Coexist With People
Tigers aren’t known for being accommodating, but a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
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Meet New York’s New Environmental Hero: the Oyster
Marine scientists, planners and government officials say millions of mollusks planted in waters off New York and other cities...
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Former NASA Engineer Designs App to Chart Water Quality
When environmental engineer John Feighery got a job testing well water in Bangladesh for the National Institutes of Health,...
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As People Age They Rely on Supernatural More
Reliance on supernatural explanations for major life events, such as death and illness, often increases rather than declines with...