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The Future of Residential Spaces
The word “house” generally conjures images of rectangular dwellings with front porches and chimneys. Front lawns and garages too....
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Quasar Revealed In Unprecedented Detail
Astronomers have made a crucial step towards a scientific goal by observing the heart of a distant quasar with...
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Why Is Earth So Dry?
With large swaths of oceans, rivers that snake for hundreds of miles, and behemoth glaciers near the north and...
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Sophisticated Mayan Water Management System Revealed
Scientists have identified the largest ancient Mayan dam, constructed from stone and holding back around 20 million gallons of...
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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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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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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,...
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Solar System Ice: Source of Earth’s Water
Scientists have long believed that comets and, or a type of very primitive meteorite called carbonaceous chondrites were the...