BIG Questions – Page 55

Fly Genomes Show Natural Selection
By the Editor on October 15, 2012
When ancestral humans walked out of Africa tens of thousands of years ago, Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies came along...
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Americans Win Nobel Economics Prize
By the Editor on October 15, 2012
Two American economists won the Nobel Prize in economics for their research into how to match different actors in...
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Scientists Observe Quantum Effects in Cold Chemistry
By the Editor on October 13, 2012
At very low temperatures, close to absolute zero, chemical reactions may proceed at a much higher rate than classical...
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Is a Train-Wreck Looming for Social Psychology?
By the Editor on October 13, 2012
Daniel Kahneman sent an e-mail last week to a dozen social psychologists, spelling out what he sees as a...
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Social Media and Social Good
By Peter Lewek on October 12, 2012
Social media was a major force behind last year’s Arab Spring, after communities organized and overthrew tyrannical dictators, as...
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Does Record Number of Religious ‘Nones’ Mean Decline of Religiosity?
By the Editor on October 12, 2012
“ ‘Nones’ On the Rise,” released by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life in affiliation with PBS’...
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Megacities Pose Serious Health Challenge
By the Editor on October 12, 2012
Rapid urbanization will take a heavy toll on public health if city planning and development do not incorporate measures...
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Spineless Critter Had Oldest Complex Brain
By the Editor on October 12, 2012
A 520-million-year-old, three-inch fossil has yielded evidence that complex brains evolved much earlier than previously thought. The preserved external...
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Black-Hole Laser Edges Closer to Testing Hawking
By the Editor on October 12, 2012
In a laboratory in Scotland, a revolutionary kind of laser is taking shape – the first one to be...
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Stem Cell Opponents File Appeal With U.S. Supreme Court
By the Editor on October 12, 2012
It’s been 3 years since the legality of federal funding for research involving human embryonic stem cells (hESC) was...
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