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Humans Caused Historic Great Barrier Reef Collapse
The expansion of European settlement in Australia triggered a massive coral collapse at the Great Barrier Reef more than...
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Why Conservatives Turned Against Science
A prediction: When all the votes have been counted and the reams of polling data have been crunched, analyzed,...
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Lack of Science Capacity Threatens Africa’s Development
The “remarkable recent economic growth” in many African countries may be able to sustain science through domestic funding (rather...
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Genomics: The Single Life
Sequencing DNA from individual cells is changing the way that researchers think of humans as a whole.
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Cockatoo Shows Tool-Making Skills
A captive-bred Goffin’s cockatoo has surprised researchers by spontaneously making and using “tools” to reach food. The species is...
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Super-Fast Space Travel Would Kill You in Minutes
Everyone thinks it would be cool to travel at the speed of light, which is why scientists devote their...
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Humans Think Like Quantum Particles
Quantum physicists have discovered that quantum mechanics enlarges our capacity to reason in unexpected ways. The notorious Prisoner’s Dilemma,...
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3-D Maps Pictured Sandy’s Devastation–Five Years Ago
Five years ago, a report called “Nation Under Siege” illustrated the vulnerability of 31 U.S. coastal cities to flooding....
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Empathy Represses Analytic Thought, and Vice Versa
New research shows a simple reason why even the most intelligent, complex brains can be taken by a swindler’s...
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New Theory on Formation of Solar System’s First Stuff
A new view of the solar system’s early days proposes that the first two kinds of solid materials —...