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Electric Car Breaks 500 Mile Barrier
The arguments against an electric car are growing fewer. A vehicle in development by ECOmove – a consortium of...
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From Higgs to Humanity: Discoveries for the Common Good
Big scientific discoveries, such as the God particle, can have great Earthly potential that must be shared by the...
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The Salvation of Extraterrestrials
Some years ago a group of scientists produced an exercise in probability: the Drake equation. It looks at the...
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Americans’ Confidence in the Church at All-Time Low
Americans’ confidence in organized religion is at its lowest in more than three decades, with just 44% having a...
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Chimps Use Human-Like Gestures to Communicate
Wild chimpanzees communicate using similar gestures to humans, according to a Stirling researcher. Anna Roberts said she had identified...
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Loner Galaxy Is Seed of Giant Black Hole
Unsociable galaxies are unusual. Astronomers think that galaxies grow from scraggly clusters of stars to elegant spirals like the...
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Biased Observers of Nature
Scientists are not robots recording events using mechanically objective methods. Like all human beings, scientists have biases. Indeed, the...
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UK Research Funders Announce Liberated Open Access Policy
From April 2013, science papers must be made free to access within six months of publication if they come...
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Steven Weinberg: Why the Higgs Boson Matters
The announcement that the “Higgs boson” had been discovered at the CERN laboratory in Geneva made news around the...
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God Particle Discovery Reignites Science and Religion Debate
The Higgs boson is perhaps better known by its sexier nickname: the “God particle.” But in fact, many scientists,...