BIG Questions – Page 59

How Order Arises From the Random Motion of Particles in the Cosmos
By the Editor on October 5, 2012
One of the unsolved mysteries of contemporary science is how highly organized structures can emerge from the random motion...
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Photon Reaches From Beyond the Grave in Quantum Trick
By the Editor on October 5, 2012
Albert Einstein mockingly called it “spooky action at a distance”: the finding that quantum particles can influence each other...
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Human-Neandertal Mating Gets a New Date
By the Editor on October 5, 2012
A new study suggests that present-day Europeans share more genes with now-extinct Neandertals than do living Africans, at least...
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Curiosity Set to Scoop Sand Sample That Could Reveal Ancient Life
By the Editor on October 5, 2012
NASA’s Curiosity rover is getting ready to take its first scoop of Martian soil. The analysis of the soil...
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Watch Out Urbanites, Here Come the Carnivores
By the Editor on October 5, 2012
Raccoons, skunks, possums and certain other animals have long been city dwellers, but now larger wild carnivores are moving...
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Astronomers Discover Star Racing Around Black Hole at Center of Our Galaxy
By the Editor on October 5, 2012
UCLA astronomers report the discovery of a remarkable star that orbits the enormous black hole at the center of...
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Most Precise Measurement of Universe’s Expansion Achieved
By the Editor on October 5, 2012
The most precise measurement ever made of the speed of the universe’s expansion is in, thanks to NASA’s Spitzer...
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Did Eating Meat Make Us Human?
By the Editor on October 4, 2012
Fragments of a 1.5-million-year-old skull from a child recently found in Tanzania suggest early hominids weren’t just occasional carnivores...
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Ancient Empires Produced Significant Greenhouse Gasses
By the Editor on October 4, 2012
An analysis of Greenland ice core samples indicates significant global methane emissions per capita during the Roman Empire and...
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Neighboring Black Holes Defy Predictions of Violent Interactions
By the Editor on October 4, 2012
Around the cosmos, black holes aren’t known for being the nicest neighbors. They tend to make their presence felt...
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