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Physicist Wants to Put Einstein’s Equation to the Test
Does E always equal mc²? University of Arizona physicist Andrei Lebed suspects not – and plans to try and...
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Ice Swirls off the Coast of Greenland … for Now
From Slate’s Bad Astronomy blog: Global warming is real. Temperatures are changing, climate is changing, and most importantly, arctic...
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Data Saved In Quartz Glass Might Last 300 Million Years
Most cultural institutions and research laboratories still rely on magnetic tape to archive their collections. Hitachi recently announced that...
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Atom Smasher Hiatus Sets Stage for More Discovery
The Large Hadron Collider will operate for two more months then shut down through 2014, allowing engineers to lay...
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The Most Debated Stories of 2012
SciDev.Net brings you the most commented on articles in 2012, including news, editorials and opinions, spanning topics as diverse...
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Oops! 5 Retracted Science Studies of 2012
It seems that an increasing number of scientific studies are just plain wrong and are ultimately retracted. Worse, a...
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The Top 10 ScienceNOW Stories of 2012
At the end of every December, ScienceNOW takes a look back at some of its favorite stories of the...
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Will the First True ‘Alien Earth’ Be Found in 2013?
The first truly Earth-like alien planet is likely to be spotted next year, an epic discovery that would cause...
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New Form of Quantum Computation Will Challenge Ordinary Computers
You’ve heard the hype a hundred times: Physicists hope to someday build a whiz-bang quantum computer that can solve...
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A Backdoor Way to Do Experiments on Exotic Gravitational Physics
The whole point of an explanation is to reduce something you don’t know to something you do. By that...