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Andean Glaciers Melting at Unprecedented Rates
Climate change has shrunk Andean glaciers between 30 and 50% since the 1970s and could melt many of them...
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NIH: All but 50 Research Chimps Should Be Retired
All but about 50 of hundreds of research chimpanzees belonging to the National Institutes of Health should be retired...
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Scientists Discover ‘Holy Grail’ of Brain Disease Research
It’s been called the “holy grail” of brain research and now, it may have been found. Scientists in the...
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Men Commit More Scientific Fraud Than Women
Men are more likely than women to commit scientific fraud, a new analysis of misconduct convictions reveals. And the...
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Can Neanderthals Be Brought Back From the Dead?
In a SPIEGEL interview, synthetic biology expert George Church of Harvard University explains how DNA will become the building...
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Watch 62 Years of Global Warming in 13 Seconds
From our friends at NASA comes an amazing 13-second animation that depicts how temperatures around the globe have warmed...
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Stiglitz: Inequality Is Holding Back the Recovery
The re-election of President Obama was like a Rorschach test, subject to many interpretations. In this election, each side...
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Fermi Telescope May Turn Focus to Dark Matter
The Universe’s highest-energy light could finally yield clues to the nature of the “dark matter” that makes up some...
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DARPA Takes Aim at Space Junk
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency seeks help solving new technical challenges in an existing program aimed at refurbishing...
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Asteroid-Mining ‘FireFlys’ Will Be Ready for Action by 2015
A second commercial venture to mine the near infinite resources of outer space has been started, and Deep Space...