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Women Seek Less-Dominant Dates in Recession
By the Editor on April 20, 2012
When thinking about the economic recession, women exhibit less interest in alpha males in favor of guys who call...
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Life On Earth Evolved From ‘Redundant’ Chemical Systems
By the Editor on April 20, 2012
The earliest cells were unstable chemical systems that survived by combining a handful of shaky carbon-based assemblies together, researchers...
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Evolution Seen in Synthetic DNA
By the Editor on April 20, 2012
Researchers have succeeded in mimicking the chemistry of life in synthetic versions of DNA and RNA molecules. The work...
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How Big Data Is Changing Astronomy
By the Editor on April 20, 2012
Think of all the data humans have collected over the long history of astronomy, from the cuneiform tablets of...
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We Have No Idea How Bad Solar Storms Might Get
By the Editor on April 20, 2012
When the sun really acts up, spewing out heaps of charged particles in a burst called a coronal mass...
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Heavy Elements Key for Planet Formation
By the Editor on April 20, 2012
Planets form more commonly in star systems with relatively high concentrations of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, a...
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Polar Bears Older Than Thought
By the Editor on April 20, 2012
Polar bears have been chilling on the ice far longer than is generally thought, new research suggests, and they...
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Fundamental Particle ‘Splits’ into Quasiparticles
By the Editor on April 19, 2012
In a feat of technical mastery, condensed-matter physicists have managed to detect the elusive third constituent of an electron...
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Cosmic Ray Mystery Leaves Scientists in the Dark
By the Editor on April 19, 2012
The mystery of the origin of the strongest cosmic rays has deepened as new clues into key suspects, the...
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Attention Tunes the Mind’s Ear
By the Editor on April 19, 2012
Brain activity shows how one voice pattern stands out from the crowd
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