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Spy Telescopes Could Advance U.S. Dark Energy Mission
The two telescopes were designed to gaze down upon Earth from space to collect intelligence. Now, NASA hopes to...
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Sustainability Hinges on Local Policies, not Global Goals
In the run-up to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in Brazil, much has been written about how to...
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Lucid Dreaming: Rise of a Nocturnal Hobby
Lucid dreaming technically refers to any occasion when the sleeper is aware they are dreaming. But it is also...
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Why Humans Prevailed Over Neanderthals
One hundred thousand years ago, several humanlike species walked the Earth. There were tribes of stocky Neanderthals eking out...
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South Korea Surrenders to Creationist Demands
Mention creationism, and many scientists think of the United States, where efforts to limit the teaching of evolution have...
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Fossil Discovery Sheds New Light on Evolution of Higher Primates
A team of researchers has announced the discovery of Afrasia djijidae, a new fossil primate from Myanmar that illuminates...
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How Infectious Disease May Have Shaped Human Origins
Roughly 100,000 years ago, human evolution reached a mysterious bottleneck: Our ancestors had been reduced to perhaps five to...
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Baby We Were Born to Learn
Researchers are calling it the “Goldilocks Effect”: Turns out that babies’ brains are wired to focus on “just right”...
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Giant Insects Shrunk as Birds Entered Prehistoric Skies
Millions of years ago, oversized insects like griffinflies boasting wingspans comparable to today’s hawks scuttled across (and fluttered above)...
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Are We in the Midst of a Sixth Mass Extinction?
Nearly 20,000 species of animals and plants around the globe are considered high risks for extinction in the wild....