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NASA’s Mars Curiosity Stretches Robotic Arm for First Time
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity flexed its 7-foot-long robotic arm for the first time since it landed on Mars. The...
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Is Climate Coverage Losing Steam?
Guess who’s not talking about climate change? Besides the usual suspects, we can now add some unusual ones: most...
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Ovulation Spurred By Newfound Semen Ingredient
Semen doesn’t just ferry sperm. It also bears a mystery ingredient that turns on ovulation in some animals and...
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Skull Resets Human Migration Clock
Newfound pieces of human skull from “the Cave of the Monkeys” in Laos are the earliest skeletal evidence yet...
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Quantum Processor Factors Prime Number
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have built a quantum processor that can factor a composite number – in this...
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Massachusetts Butterflies Move North as Climate Warms
The authors of a Harvard study published in Nature Climate Change gathered their data from an unlikely source—the trip...
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Future of Data: Encoded in DNA
In the latest effort to contend with exploding quantities of digital data, researchers encoded an entire book into the...
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Arctic Ice Melt Ups Fears, Opens New Shipping Lanes
The Arctic Ocean’s ice cover is shrinking at a record pace this year after higher-than-average temperatures hastened the annual...
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New Family of Spiders, With Claws, Found in Oregon Cave
Amateur cave explorers have found a new family of spiders in the Siskiyou Mountains of Southern Oregon, and scientists...
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New Science of Religion Says God Has Gotten a Bad Rap
The implication that religion is basically malevolent is a standard assertion of the New Atheists. Their argument isn’t just...