BIG Questions – Page 51

Northwestern Researchers Have a Feeling Premonition May Exist
By the Editor on October 24, 2012
Researchers at Northwestern University have found evidence that premonition, or anticipation of an event without conscious reason, may exist....
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Gene Genesis: Scientists Observe New Genes Evolving from Mutated Copies
By the Editor on October 24, 2012
Researchers have observed in an experiment the exact steps bacterial genes take to evolve a new ability, unexpectedly adding...
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Europe to Begin Search for Habitable Planets in Our Cosmic Backyard
By the Editor on October 24, 2012
The European Space Agency has approved the first of its small science missions. Don't let the description fool you,...
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Study Links Cooked Food to Early Humans’ Growing Brains
By the Editor on October 24, 2012
Here’s something for raw-food aficionados to chew on: Cooked food might be a big reason humans were able to...
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The Presidential Debates’ Great Unmentionable: Climate Change
By the Editor on October 23, 2012
The Pentagon ranks it as a national security threat and, left unchecked, climate change is expected to cost the...
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Scholarly Publishing’s Gender Gap
By the Editor on October 23, 2012
Women cluster in certain fields, according to a study of millions of journal articles, while men get more credit
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What Can You Really Know?
By the Editor on October 23, 2012
Jim Holt’s Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story is a portrait gallery of leading modern philosophers....
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Of Earthquakes and Human Responsibility
By the Editor on October 23, 2012
From Slate’s Future Tense blog: A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience indicates that human activity triggered a...
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Sex and Space Travel: Predictions From the 1950s
By the Editor on October 23, 2012
Outside of science fiction, the topic of sex in space has received surprisingly scant attention. But it was science...
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How Fear Can Skew Spatial Perception
By the Editor on October 23, 2012
Are you overcome by ophidiophobia when you come across a snake in the wild? As it turns out, the...
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