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Rare Earth Element Discovered In Ancient Stars
By the Editor on February 22, 2012
In three stars far, far away, one of the rarest elements known to man has been spotted, improving our...
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How Earth’s Primordial Soup Came to Life
By the Editor on February 21, 2012
Just as species are thought to have evolved over time, the individual molecules that form the basis of life...
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Did Life’s First Cells Evolve in Geothermal Pools?
By the Editor on February 16, 2012
Earth started as a violent place, its surface churned by continuous volcanic eruptions and cloaked in an atmosphere that...
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Will This Be the Year Scientists Find the ‘God Particle’?
By the Editor on February 15, 2012
Scientists hunting the Higgs boson, the sub-atomic particle believed to have played a vital role in the creation of...
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Habitable Zones Around Alien Suns May Depend on Chemistry
By the Editor on February 6, 2012
Trace elements in stars may influence the evolution of habitable zones around them where life as we know it...
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Newfound Super-Earth Planet Could Support Life
By the Editor on February 2, 2012
A potentially habitable alien planet — one that scientists say is the best candidate yet to harbor water, and...
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Early Plants Linked to Ancient Ice Ages
By the Editor on February 1, 2012
The first plants to appear on earth 470 million years ago triggered a series of ice ages by causing...
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NASA Spots ‘Alien’ Matter From Beyond Solar System
By the Editor on February 1, 2012
For the very first time, a NASA spacecraft has detected matter from outside our solar system — material that...
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Particle Physics and the Flavor of the Day
By the Editor on January 27, 2012
Fundamental particles are the building blocks of matter, and, apparently, come in many more flavors than the basic few...
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What Happened Before the Big Bang?
By the Editor on January 19, 2012
What existed before the big bang? What is the nature of time? Is our universe one of many? On...
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