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Games for Science
Scientists are using video games to tap the collective intelligence of people around the world, while doctors and educators...
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Earthworms Roped Into Making Quantum Dots
Ordinary earthworms are proving to be a sophisticated chemistry lab: they can put together substances with unusual light-emitting properties....
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Top Scientific Discoveries of 2012
There were many really big moments in science this year. From finding a long, long sought subatomic particle to...
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The Year in Space: Hello to Mars … Farewell to Neil Armstrong
Every year marks beginnings and endings, but when it comes to space exploration, 2012 ranks as a big year...
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Mythical Particles, Goldilocks Planets and More: Top 5 Surprising Scientific Milestones of 2012
The year 2012 was a major one for science. We saw scientists develop a new type of drug to...
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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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Space Radiation May Accelerate Alzheimer’s in Astronauts
Radiation in space might harm the brains of astronauts in deep space by accelerating the development of Alzheimer’s disease,...
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New Kind of Magnetism Discovered
Following up on earlier theoretical predictions, MIT researchers have now demonstrated experimentally the existence of a fundamentally new kind...
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Build the Death Star
Well, it’s taken 80 years, but the post–New Deal, post-military-industrial-complex mega-state has finally come up with a single good...
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The Next Steps in Space Exploration
Advocates of manned space flight have long argued that propelling people into orbits has a public appeal unmatched by...