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New observations of galactic clusters have revealed a controversial phenomenon called “dark flow,” which could be a sign of parallel universes.
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A selection of the year’s best books for the science enthusiasts on your list, whether they are Manhattan naturalists, Scientific Revolution buffs, or lovers of microbial manga.
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Highly reactive molecules known as carbenes have gone from unstable intermediates with nanosecond lifetimes to powerful tools in synthetic chemistry.
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The anti-war MIT linguist and the Rutgers evolutionary biologist to discuss social evolution.
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Noam Chomsky
Using electron microcopy to find the evolutionary history of so-called "book lungs" in scorpions took Carsten Kamenz across an alien landscape of miniature caverns, canyons, and beaches.
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With toxic compounds turning up in animals, food, and people all over the world, scientists are calling for green chemistry: a sustainable ethos of product design.
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The director of the Census of Marine Life on broadening the scope of global change to include illumination and noise.
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Malcolm Gladwell and Steven Pinker duel over balancing scientific rigor with relatable narrative, while the future of personal genomics goes under the microscope.
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Current developments in autonomous, biological, and evolutionary robotics will have a profound impact on the future of interactive and dynamic architectural space.
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The pharmaceutical industry spends millions of dollars developing drugs and millions more swaying the opinions of physicians and the public. Can this imperfect system be reformed?
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Astronomers will soon find scores of Earth-sized exoplanets, but imaging them may be decades away. That is, unless NASA decides to build a starshade.
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New findings shed light on a century’s worth of bizarre explanations for the eerie feeling we get around lifelike robots.
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The eerie emotional response brought on by near-duplicates of our selves raises interesting questions about perception and expectations.
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The release of an apocalyptic movie prompts NASA to debunk planetary rumors, fowl play shuts down the LHC, and the Catholic Church discusses alien life.
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Large Hadron Collider
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New “Orchid Hypothesis” suggests a startling view of human strength (source: The Atlantic)
For decades, behavioral scientists have hewn to the “vulnerability hypothesis,” which holds that certain genes make people more ...
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In Bernhard Edmaier’s photographs, glowing rivers of lava
and scarred volcanic plains share the stage with more...
obscure markers of tectonic activity—sulfurous crystals, eerily hued lakes, and pools of bubbling mud.
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Fire, Water, Acid, and Stone
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Deep brain stimulation, already established as a treatment
for stubborn Parkinson’s disease, may also be useful as...
a therapy for drug-resistant clinical depression.
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Probing into Depression
Biochemist Oliver Peoples explains how his polymer-producing microbes could transform the plastics industry and why both oceans and landfills will benefit.
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Questions of extraterrestrial life rest on theories of
Martian history....
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Mars: A Teeming Past?
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The search for life beyond our pale blue
dot is fraught with dashed hopes. Will the chemical...
and mineral fingerprints of Earthly organisms apply on other worlds?
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What Life Leaves Behind
