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One Form of Neuron Turned into Another in Brain
A new finding by Harvard stem cell biologists turns one of the basics of neurobiology on its head –...
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Obama Promises Action on Climate Change
President Barack Obama promised to take action on climate change in his inaugural speech, putting the issue at the...
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The Climate Change Endgame
Whether in Davos or almost anywhere else that leaders are discussing the world’s problems, they are missing by far...
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Scientists Find Quadruple Helix DNA in Human Cells
While traditionally we think of only double helix DNA, scientists from Cambridge University in England have made an interesting...
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Loneliness, Like Chronic Stress, Taxes the Immune System
New research links loneliness to a number of dysfunctional immune responses, suggesting that being lonely has the potential to...
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Storms Reveal Iron Age Skeleton
A series of storms that hit Scotland’s Shetland Islands over the holidays revealed what archaeologists believe could be 2,000-year-old...
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Severe Droughts in Amazon Linked to Climate Change
An area in the Amazon twice the size of California is experiencing what scientists call a “megadrought.” The prolonged...
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Time for Science to Seize Political Power
In your wildest dreams, could you imagine a government that builds its policies on carefully gathered scientific evidence? One...
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‘Planetary Parks’ Could Protect Space Wilderness
It’s a wilderness out there in outer space. And as robotic surrogates set the stage for human footprints on...
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Global Warming Is Changing Our Daily Life in the U.S.
A special panel of scientists issued a report detailing the dozens of ways how climate change is already disrupting...