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Scientists Define New Limits of Microbial Life in Undersea Volcanoes
By some estimates, a third of Earth’s organisms live in our planet’s rocks and sediments, yet their lives are...
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Sikh Temple Shooting: Of Martian Rovers and Terror in Holy Spaces
How do violence, holy spaces, and diversity intersect in America? Terror in holy spaces is not a new facet...
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Curiosity Lands Safely: ‘Wheels Down on Mars’
Curiosity, the largest and most advanced spacecraft ever sent to another planet, stuck its extraordinary landing in triumphant and...
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Eyes Reveal Sexual Orientation
Whether you’re gay, straight or somewhere else on the spectrum, the truth of who attracts you could be in...
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Ocean Acidification Disrupting Food Chains
Shellfish respond to increasing acidification in seawater – such as that produced by climate change – by producing lighter,...
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It Takes a Cooperative to Raise a Child
The supply of children in U.S. foster care far exceeds the demand for their adoption. Indeed, only one in...
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Fluctuating Weather Makes Birds More Flexible Singers
Mixing it up helps birds ensure that their songs are heard no matter what the habitat, say researchers at...
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Apocalypse Now and Then: Our Global Death Wish
Two recent scholarly works on millennialism leave this reviewer with a new understanding of the perverse human yearning for...
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Evolving a Green High-Rise
Check out this high-rise in France’s Boulogne-Billancourt re-imagined as an urban eco-village, bursting with greenery. The Natural Evolution building...
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Star’s ‘Cry’ Heralds New Era for Testing Relativity
Last year, astronomers discovered a quiescent black hole in a distant galaxy that erupted after shredding and consuming a...