BIG Questions – Page 150

How the Zebra Got its Stripes
By the Editor on February 9, 2012
If there was a ‘Just So’ story for how the zebra got its stripes, Rudyard Kipling certainly would have...
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Do Aliens Go Invisible By ‘Going Green’?
By the Editor on February 8, 2012
The Fermi Paradox asks the simple question “where are they?” Our Milky Way galaxy is so big and so...
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Weaponizing Neuroscience
By the Editor on February 8, 2012
A group of forward-thinking military scientists want to plug soldiers’ weapons directly into their brains, and this time DARPA...
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Patch of Seagrass is World’s Oldest Living Organism
By the Editor on February 8, 2012
A swathe of seagrass in the Mediterranean could be the oldest known living thing on Earth. Carlos Duarte of...
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How the Fall of Communism Changed Mathematics in the U.S.
By the Editor on February 7, 2012
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992 brought an influx of Soviet mathematicians to U.S. institutions, and those...
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The Psychology of Political Flip-Flops
By the Editor on February 7, 2012
Politicians change their minds like everyone else. And accusations of flip-flopping are often thought to be a boon for...
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What’s a Science Teacher to Do?
By the Editor on February 7, 2012
It used to be sex ed that got science teachers into challenging situations once in awhile. Evolution, too, of...
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Social Media More Addictive than Cigarettes and Alcohol
By the Editor on February 7, 2012
Tweeting or checking emails may be harder to resist than cigarettes and alcohol, according to researchers who tried to...
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The Quantum Physics of Free Will
By the Editor on February 7, 2012
Is the fact you are reading this story a decision you arrived at it by your own free choice,...
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Thinking About Mortality Changes How We Act
By the Editor on February 6, 2012
Scientists have been exploring the idea that we are all governed by two disparate existential systems, each with its...
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