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Modeling Strategy Can Help Trace Roots of Widespread Phenomena
By the Editor on March 5, 2012
Predicting the future is notoriously difficult, but uncovering the past can be just as tricky. Now researchers have developed...
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Why Loneliness Can Be Deadly
By the Editor on March 5, 2012
Loneliness can send a person down a path toward bad health, and even more intense loneliness, studies have shown....
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Crowdsourcing the Search For E.T.
By the Editor on March 3, 2012
The SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute is asking the public to join in its hunt for signals from...
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Music Can Change (the Way We See) the World
By the Editor on March 2, 2012
Could sad music be perpetuating our sullen views and upbeat tunes optimizing our optimistic outlook?
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Female Bonobos Have Social Climbing Sex
By the Editor on March 2, 2012
For female Bonobos, climbing the social ladder means having sex with the alpha female
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Modern Era Brings Death to Words
By the Editor on March 2, 2012
Analysis of books identifies lexical victims of shifting social, technological influences
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Is Neurotechnology Unethical?
By the Editor on March 1, 2012
Britain’s Nuffield Council on Bioethics, which examines ethical issues raised by new developments in biology and medicine, recently launched...
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New Twist in Antimatter Mystery
By the Editor on March 1, 2012
Physicists have taken a step forward in their efforts to understand why the Universe is dominated by matter, and...
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The Paradox Of Altruism
By the Editor on March 1, 2012
Charles Darwin regarded the problem of altruism—the act of helping someone else, even if it comes at a steep...
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Scientists Reconstruct Long-Extinct Giant Penguin
By the Editor on March 1, 2012
It was a slender bird, with long wings and a spear-like bill to catch swift ocean prey. And scientists...
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