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Space Tourism’s Next Destination May Be the Moon
By the Editor on July 3, 2012
Frank Sinatra would have been happy to learn that a U.K. company called Excalibur Almaz wants to literally fly...
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Physicists Find New Particle, but Is it the Higgs?
By the Editor on July 3, 2012
Physicists in Europe will present evidence of an entirely new particle on July 4, Nature has learned. But more...
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Are Bees Able to Rejuvenate Their Brains?
By the Editor on July 3, 2012
A team of scientists from Arizona State University and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences found out that by...
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Humble DNA Could Help Decipher Dark Matter
By the Editor on July 3, 2012
A few strands of DNA could help solve the mystery of dark matter. A newly proposed detector aims to...
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Quantum Biology
By the Editor on July 2, 2012
The panel on “Quantum Biology and the Hidden Nature of Nature” at the World Science Festival last month was...
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U.S. Scientists See Stronger Hints of Higgs
By the Editor on July 2, 2012
Hints of the Higgs boson detected last year by a US “atom smasher” have become even stronger, scientists have...
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Mass Extinctions Reset the Long-Term Pace of Evolution
By the Editor on July 2, 2012
A new study indicates that mass extinctions affect the pace of evolution, not just in the immediate aftermath of...
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How Will Obamacare Affect Scientific Research?
By the Editor on July 2, 2012
The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold President Barack Obama’s health care reform law has an impact in the form...
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Ancient Hunter-Gatherers Kept in Touch
By the Editor on July 2, 2012
Until about 8500 years ago, Europe was populated by nomadic hunter-gatherers who hunted, fished, and ate wild plants. Then,...
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Why Chimps Attack
By the Editor on July 2, 2012
Chimpanzees have made headlines in recent years for several unprovoked attacks against humans, the latest just recently at the...
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