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Maybe a Cosmic Impact Wiped Out Mammoths After All
A study of rocks in Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Syria provides powerful support for the theory that a major...
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Battery-Powered Buses Enter the Mainstream
Better lithium ion batteries have led to an explosion in availability of plug-in passenger cars. And now, thanks to...
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Physicists Discover Mechanisms of Wrinkle and Crumple Formation
Smooth wrinkles and sharply crumpled regions are familiar motifs in biological and synthetic sheets, such as plant leaves and...
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‘Prometheus’ Offers a Creationist Indulgence for Science Geeks
“Prometheus,” the new movie from the director Ridley Scott, is a scientific and spiritual quest. The scientists in the...
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Unique Microbes Found in Extreme Environment
Researchers who were looking for organisms that eke out a living in some of the most inhospitable soils on...
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Climate ‘Time Machine’ Tests Future CO2 Levels
A climate time machine has been erected in Australia. The contraption, comprised of several nine-story-tall frames with pipes that...
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CERN Confirms Neutrinos Don’t Break Light Speed
Neutrinos are most definitely not faster than light after all, says CERN. The laws of physics got the good...
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An Entrepreneurial Approach to Reforming Higher Education
There’s ample evidence that a more entrepreneurial approach to postsecondary education is overdue. While some pioneering ventures are under...
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Sustainability: The Corporate Climate Overhaul
There is an understandable tendency to put problems of the ‘global commons’— climate change or biodiversity loss, for instance...
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Quantum Mechanical Properties of Light Flout Classical Physics
With simple arguments, researchers show that nature is complicated! Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have made a simple...