Posts tagged with ‘BIG Questions’

  • New World Bank Head Wants to Address Climate Change

    By on October 12, 2012

    Jim Yong Kim, the new president of the World Bank, said that dealing with climate change will be one...

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  • Saving Nature Will Require Billions

    By on October 12, 2012

    Reducing the risk of extinction for threatened species and establishing protected areas for nature will cost the world over...

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  • New Theory of Early Animal Evolution

    By on October 11, 2012

    A New York Medical College developmental biologist whose life’s work has supported the theory of evolution has developed a...

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  • Freshest Mars Rock Contains Evidence for Water

    By on October 11, 2012

    A meteorite that fell in Morocco last year might contain the freshest evidence for water on Mars, according to...

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  • DNA Has a 521-Year Half-Life

    By on October 11, 2012

    Palaeogeneticists have examined 158 DNA-containing leg bones belonging to three species of extinct giant birds called moa. The bones,...

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  • Brain’s Unconscious Bias Sways Decisions

    By on October 11, 2012

    If you’ve ever had to make a snap decision between two unfamiliar choices, you may want to thank your...

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  • Singing Mice Show Signs of Learning

    By on October 11, 2012

    Like songbirds and humans, male mice have brain circuits and behaviors they may use to learn some of their...

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  • Climate-Proofing the Insurance Industry

    By on October 11, 2012

    The world’s largest reinsurer has examined the recent rise in the number and severity of natural disasters worldwide, and...

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  • Peering Inside the Black Box

    By on October 11, 2012

    For much of the 20th century, the question of building mind from matter was considered so difficult that consciousness...

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  • A Diamond Bigger Than Earth?

    By on October 11, 2012

    Orbiting a star that is visible to the naked eye, astronomers have discovered a planet twice the size of...

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