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New Uncertainty About the Uncertainty Principle
By the Editor on February 23, 2012
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle is often invoked outside the realm of physics to describe how the act of observing...
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Increasingly, Children’s Books Are Where the Wild Things Aren’t
By the Editor on February 23, 2012
A new study has found that over the last several decades, nature has increasingly taken a back seat in...
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Male Y Chromosome Extinction Theory Challenged
By the Editor on February 23, 2012
Men may not become extinct after all, according to a new study. Previous research has suggested the Y sex...
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Cosmic Hurricane: Black Hole Has 20 Million MPH Winds
By the Editor on February 23, 2012
Scientists have measured the fastest winds yet observed from a stellar-mass black hole, shedding light on the behavior of...
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World’s Deepest Land Animal Discovered
By the Editor on February 23, 2012
In the dark abyss of the world’s deepest known cave lurks a newfound species of primitive eyeless insect, one...
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Religious Freedom and the Conservative Quest for Absolute Truth
By the Editor on February 22, 2012
When the Obama administration declared that employees of Catholic institutions must have contraception covered in their health plans (before...
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Rare Earth Element Discovered In Ancient Stars
By the Editor on February 22, 2012
In three stars far, far away, one of the rarest elements known to man has been spotted, improving our...
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How Earth’s Primordial Soup Came to Life
By the Editor on February 21, 2012
Just as species are thought to have evolved over time, the individual molecules that form the basis of life...
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AAAS President Says Big Business ‘Driving Science Into a Dark Era’
By the Editor on February 21, 2012
Most scientists, on achieving high office, keep their public remarks to the bland and reassuring, but Nina Fedoroff, the...
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Disease-Fighting Secrets of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes
By the Editor on February 21, 2012
Insects cover our planet. Filed into 750,000 different species, at any given time there are one million trillion bugs...
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