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Can Neanderthals Be Brought Back From the Dead?
In a SPIEGEL interview, synthetic biology expert George Church of Harvard University explains how DNA will become the building...
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Stiglitz: Inequality Is Holding Back the Recovery
The re-election of President Obama was like a Rorschach test, subject to many interpretations. In this election, each side...
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Fermi Telescope May Turn Focus to Dark Matter
The Universe’s highest-energy light could finally yield clues to the nature of the “dark matter” that makes up some...
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Asteroid-Mining ‘FireFlys’ Will Be Ready for Action by 2015
A second commercial venture to mine the near infinite resources of outer space has been started, and Deep Space...
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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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Black Hole Collision May Have Irradiated Earth in Eighth Century
A study last year found unusually high levels of the isotope carbon-14 in ancient rings of Japanese cedar trees...
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Strongest Evidence Yet That Mars May Have Supported Life
Scientists believe they may have found the ‘strongest evidence yet’ that Mars may have supported life, but it’s unlikely...
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Astronomers Measure Nearby Universe’s ‘Cosmic Fog’
Researchers from the Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet have carried out the first measurement of the intensity of the diffuse extragalactic background...
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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...