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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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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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Supermassive Black Hole Ejected From Its Home Galaxy
The Chandra X-Ray Observatory announced that’s it has observed something unprcedented: a supermassive black hole being ejected from its...
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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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The Benefits of Making It Harder to Learn
Results of a recent experiment demonstrated that students who read material in difficult, unfamiliar fonts learned it more deeply than...
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Expanding the Genetic Alphabet May Be Easier Than Previously Thought
A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute suggests that the replication process for DNA—the genetic...
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Child’s Play Becomes More Creative
Despite the fact that today’s kids have less time to play than previous generations, children’s creative play has increased,...
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Quantum Computers to Model Particle Collisions
Quantum computers are still years away, but a trio of theorists has already figured out at least one talent...
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Cosmic Calculations: Astrophysicists Explore Where Stars Are Born
A University of Delaware-led research team reports an advance in the journal Science that may help astrophysicists more accurately...