Posts tagged with ‘BIG Questions’

  • Western Scrub Jays Conduct Funerals for Their Dead

    By on September 12, 2012

    Mourning is not just a trait shared by humans, but scientists say it is also shared by the Western...

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  • How Did Mars Lose its Atmosphere?

    By on September 12, 2012

    Mars wasn’t always the Red Planet. Eons ago, it is possible that Mars was as lush as Earth is...

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  • Russian Mammoth Remains Give Glimmer of Hope for Cloning

    By on September 12, 2012

    Scientists who found well preserved woolly mammoth remains in a remote part of Russia hope they might contain the...

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  • Virgin Births Seen in Wild Vipers

    By on September 12, 2012

    It usually takes two snakes — a female and a male — to make a litter of baby copperheads....

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  • Dark Energy Is Real, Say Astronomers

    By on September 12, 2012

    Dark energy, a mysterious substance thought to be speeding up the expansion of the Universe is really there, according...

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  • Higgs Boson Confirmed

    By on September 12, 2012

    How many scientists does it take to author a study on the Higgs boson particle? Around 6,000. Two articles...

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  • 9/11 Monuments on Mars

    By on September 11, 2012

    Rocks are phenomenal time keepers. Their composition, shape, and age can make an otherwise barren environment reveal its secrets....

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  • Do You Know Your Toddler’s “Slave Footprint”?

    By on September 11, 2012

    A toddler’s “slave footprint” – how much forced labor in the global human trafficking economy is used to produce...

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  • How NASA Keeps Earth’s Germs Out of Space

    By on September 11, 2012

    In 1967, the United States joined the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union in signing the Treaty on Principles...

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  • Why Fathers Really Matter

    By on September 11, 2012

    Biology is making it clearer by the day that a man’s health and well-being have a measurable impact on...

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