SCIENCE MONDAY: Top 100 Breaking News, Headlines & Stories Worthy to Read/Watch & Share
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The Caribbean reef squid, in the pencil squid family. Public Domain via Wikipedia In the most advanced prosthetics--such as this crazy mind-controlled robotic arm --electronic hardware interfaces directly with nerves and muscles in the ...
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The sister disease affects the pancreas and other organs, while leaving the lungs alone -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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In a German study, half of those with a university degree were myopic compared to less than a quarter of folks who quit after high school or secondary school. Karen Hopkin reports. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Downward pressure and erosion combine to create the celebrated rock formations -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Shocking! Photograph by Travis Rathbone When it comes to thunderheads, lightning is the great equalizer. Essentially a giant spark, lightning relieves the charge differentials that build up in storm systems. But it’s also one of the grea...
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The state warns that fracking for natural gas might be contaminating aquifers used as a source for drinking water -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) snapped imagery of the site where humanity took their first steps on the moon. An animator combined the photograph with a terrain map to create a 3D model of the Lunar Module (LM) descent stage.
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At test sites, the exposure of rock by ants accelerated the absorption of atmospheric CO2 by the rock by as much as 335 times compared with ant-free areas. David Biello reports -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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A link between heat and the painful stones means increased chances under global warming -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Even the U.S. Department of Defense has shown interest in these long-extinct reptiles -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Material from deadly pathogens triggers alerts directly, and could speed detection -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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A dropship quadcopter designed by the European Space Agency could be landing rovers on Mars in the future.
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Physicists long assumed a proton’s spin came from its three constituent quarks. New measurements suggest particles called gluons make a significant contribution -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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When U.S. astronauts make the next 'giant leap' launching to Mars, they will bring with them a memento from the first moon landing 45 years ago. NASA is presenting Kennedy Space Center with a mission patch flown on Apollo 11 for the firs...
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What does the future of moon exploration look like? Will it be lunar colonies and manned moon bases, or a desolate lunar surface devoid of human life? National and private efforts hold the key.
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After 21.5 hours on the moon, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin blasted off from the lunar surface on July 21, 1969 to rejoin their crewmate Michael Collins in orbit.
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A blow to the head can sometimes unmask hidden artistic or intellectual gifts -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Bill Steigerwald, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center While the moon 's surface is battered by millions of craters, it also has over 200 holes – steep-walled pits that in some cases might lead to caves that future astronauts could explore...
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Carol Rasmussen, NASA Earth Science News Team NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 , which launched on July 2, will soon be providing about 100,000 high-quality measurements each day of carbon dioxide concentrations from around the globe...
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redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online In a new study designed to determine whether or not poor nutrition plays a role in colony collapse disorder , researchers from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign have dis...
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redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online While watching brightly-colored fish flit about in an aquarium tends to be a calm and relaxing experience, monitoring exactly where those aquatic creatures came from and what metho...
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A study of 473 sets of twins followed since birth found twins have twice the rate of language delay as do single-born children. Moreover, identical twins have greater rates of language delay than do non-identical twins, strengthening the...
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Teachers-in-training have long been taught that fourth grade is when students stop learning to read and start reading to learn. But a new Dartmouth study tested the theory by analyzing brain waves and found that fourth-graders do not exp...
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Men do not engage in riskier behaviors after they are circumcised, according to a study in Kenya by University of Illinois at Chicago researchers.
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A new survey, ordered by the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, shows that a majority of Canadian women lack knowledge of heart disease symptoms and risk factors, and that a significant proportion is even unaware of their own risk sta...
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Education and behavior have a greater impact on the development of nearsightedness than do genetic factors: With each school year completed, a person becomes more nearsighted.
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A new study provides the most definitive characterization of the autism-like intellectual disability disorder Christianson Syndrome and provides the first diagnostic criteria to help doctors and families identify and understand the condi...
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Lack of sleep, already considered a public health epidemic, can also lead to errors in memory, finds a new study by researchers at Michigan State University and the University of California, Irvine.
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Scientists at Brigham and Women's Hospital have developed a scalable, next-generation platelet bioreactor to generate fully functional human platelets in vitro. The work is a major biomedical advancement that will help address blood tran...
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Cold-blooded animals cannot regulate their body temperature, so their cells are stressed when facing temperature extremes. Worse still, even at slightly colder temperatures, some biological processes in the cell are slowed down more than...
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A diet enriched in 18-HEPE might help prevent heart failure in patients with cardiovascular diseases, according to researchers from Japan.
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Unclogging the body's protein disposal system may improve memory in patients with Alzheimer's disease, according to researchers in Korea.
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By tracking hybrids between songbird species, investigators have found that migration routes are under genetic control and could be preventing interbreeding. The research, which is published in Ecology Letters, was conducted using geoloc...
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Could stuffing yourself full of high-fat foods cause you to lose your sense of smell?A new study from Florida State University neuroscientists says so, and it has researchers taking a closer look at how our diets could impact a whole ran...
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Storm-triggered landslides cause loss of life, property damage, and landscape alterations. For instance, the remnants of Hurricane Camille in 1969 caused 109 deaths in central Virginia, after 600 mm of rain fell in mountainous terrain in...
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The seriousness of disease often results from the strength of immune response, rather than with the virus, itself. Turning down that response, rather than attacking the virus, might be a better way to reduce that severity, says Juliet Mo...
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Researchers at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute and the University of Barcelona have discovered the interaction between HERC2 proteins with another protein called p53 that is inactivated in more than half of human tumors. The ...
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Scientists at the Helmholtz Zentrum München have conducted research in frame of the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Initiative. They gained new insights into the composition and structure of the wheat genome and the complex interpl...
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Investigations to determine the incidence of age-related macular degeneration undertaken as part of the Gutenberg Health Study of the University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have shown that even persons under the...
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An international team of scientists led by the Baylor College of Medicine and Washington University St. Louis, including a researcher from the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna have completed the genome sequence of the common mar...
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A Coventry University scientist has developed a pioneering new way -- using samples of beating heart tissue -- to test the effect of drugs on the heart without using human or animal trials.
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Researchers from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, and Boston University School of Medicine tested whether the extent of retinal swelling due to cystoid macular edema was inversely related to dietary iodine intake in...
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Models for the evolution of life try and clarify the long term dynamics of an evolving system of species. A recent model accounts for species interactions with various degrees of symmetry, connectivity, and species abundance. This is an ...
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Eating meat contributes to climate change, due to greenhouse gasses emitted by livestock. New research finds that livestock emissions are on the rise and that beef cattle are responsible for far more greenhouse gas emissions than other t...
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François Légaré's team at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique's Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications Research Centre successfully imaged a chemical reaction with a spatial and temporal resolution greatly exceeding that obt...
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Parents want questions answered by health-care provider, but only 23 percent want recommendation, according to U-M's National Poll on Children's Health.
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On July 19, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Central Pacific Hurricane Center noted that Wali didn't even make it to the Big Island, but moisture associated with the storm did. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad...
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Terra and Aqua satellites detected 154 hotspots in areas across Riau province on Sunday, July 20, indicating forest and land fires had increased again following a decline in rainfall.
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The Human Microbiome Project is a global initiative to identify and characterize the microorganisms present at multiple sites in the human body.
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Typhoon Rammasun made landfall in southern China on July 19 bringing heavy rain and typhoon-strength winds to the south China/Vietnam border. NASA and NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite captured an infrared image the typhoon that showed strong t...
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Researchers in Virginia have developed software that can track each and every cell in a developing embryo.
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Geologists discover that the stress applied by gravity is what controls the shape of dramatic sandstone landmarks.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - Forty-five years after the first Apollo lunar landing, the United States remains divided about the moon's role in future human space exploration.
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Scientists start to demystify a mysterious crater found in Siberian permafrost.
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In preparation for the upcoming Latinas Think Big Innovation Summit this October, at Google's campus in Silicon Valley, I have been on a quest to identify Latinas around the country who are innovating in technology and across STEM fields...
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The beaches where Lego keeps washing up
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Florida native Lauren Arrington discovered that invasive lionfish, which usually live in the ocean, could survive in nearly fresh water. The 12-year-old's experiment blew away professional scientists.
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On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11's Lunar Module, Eagle, touched down in the moon's Sea of Tranquility, marking humankind's first journey to another world.
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There are a lot of opinions about where you should go to college. A lot of those opinions are probably wrong -- at least the ones based on myths about what makes a good school to get a degree from. We wanted to explain a few things a lot...
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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- Veterans, medical marijuana activists and scientists welcomed the first federally approved research into pot as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. But their hopes for the research were dashed when the U...
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This story originally appeared on VetStreet. The worst breakup of my life was devastating for me not because of the feelings of personal loss over the relationship with the man I was with, but because of the sheer heartache I felt in hav...
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Forty-five years after man first walked on the moon, Alan Bean, who was part of the second lunar landing, talks to NPR's Arun Rath about his stormy launch and how he translates space travel into art.
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Many never knew how close German U-boats came to US soil during World War II, but new high-def footage reveals several wrecks on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico. Robert Ballard, known for discovering the Titanic, is now mapping some of t...
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July 20 marks the 45th anniversary of the moon landing , you know, if you believe it really happened . Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's legendary space walk has spawned countless conspiracy theories and a fascination with the moon that l...
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The Amazon River flows eastward toward the Atlantic, but researchers know that wasn't always the case, notes the Latin Times . Long ago, the region's water moved in the opposite direction. Just what was it, though, that caused the revers...
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The tomb of Perseneb, a man described by inscriptions as a "priest" and a "steward," was first excavated in 1996, but it wasn't until 2012 that scientists noticed a painting preserved on a wall in the central room, reports Live Science. ...
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45 years ago man landed on the moon. As Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin prepared to take "one small step for man," Aldrin wanted to commemorate the moment in a way he found most personally meaningful -- by taking communion. Aldrin, a chur...
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Last week, Lake Mead dropped to the lowest levels since the reservoir was filled upon the completion of the Hoover Dam in the 1930s. The Southwest has remained in the grips of an everlasting drought for the past 14 years, forcing waters ...
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The Loris, one of world's smallest primates is under threat through loss of habitat. Naturalist Chaminda Jayasekara runs a conservation site to protect the animals.
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The Glasgow Science Centre tower has reopened to the public after being closed for almost four years.
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In a sombre and authoritative academic tone, Morgan Freeman's latest movie character delivers the following line: "It is estimated most human beings only use 10 per cent of the brain's capacity. Imagine if we could access 100 per cent. I...
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A Conservative MP who suffered from an eating disorder as a teenager has donated his DNA to a pioneering study looking for genetic links between anorexics.
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A number of scientists and others members of the AIDS research community died in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine. NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with journalist and editor in chief of HIV Plus magazine Diane Anderson-...
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Sure, according to the BBC , "it looks like a piece of old leather"—but if you ask at Smithfield, Virginia's Isle of Wight County Museum , you'll learn that a century-old ham is still, apparently, edible. It just celebrated its 112th bir...
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The recent number of mistakes documented at federal laboratories involving anthrax, flu and smallpox viruses have contributed to a debate over lax government oversight at high-level containment labs.
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The greater sage grouse might be declared an endangered species, restricting development of its habitat, leading the energy industry and the government to try to save the bird.
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Ah! The wonderful sound of clanging medals, young voices cheering, and the slapping of high fives -- it's the sound of students being rewarded for collaborating and utilizing their science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills....
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"Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon July 1969, A.D. We came in peace for all mankind." -- Inscription on the plaque of the Apollo 11 lunar module. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong made history when he landed on t...
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For years, scientists have known that people who smoke face a higher risk of suicide and assumed that this tendency was related to psychological disorders many smokers suffer . However a new study by researchers at the Washington Univers...
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A researcher at the University of Utah and colleagues elsewhere have developed a detailed map of a massive reservoir of molten magma beneath Mount Rainier in Washington, and they predicted the volcano will erupt again someday.
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Jason Silva wants to blow your mind -- or better yet, he wants you to blow your own mind. Every day. The high-energy host of National Geographic Channel's "Brain Games" is excited about the exponential growth of technology as well as our...
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Last week, nine-year-old Hally Yust died after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba infection while swimming near her family’s home in Kansas. The organism responsible, Naegleria fowleri, dwells in warm freshwater lakes and rivers and ...
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NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars has set off some fireworks on the Red Planet with the zap-zap-zap of its high-tech space laser. On Saturday (July 12), Curiosity photographed sparks flying from a baseball-size rock blasted by the 1-ton rob...
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Arturo the polar bear, living in a cramped and hot zoo enclosure in Argentina, is the subject of an online campaign that includes former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
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The dangers of procrastination are clear. But a study shows that many people are “precrastinators,” finishing projects sooner than is needed and thus causing a different kind of problem.
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If humans ever set up camp on the moon, NASA thinks they can make great use of some natural shelter: moon caves. As Vice explains, the space agency has identified more than 200 lunar pits on the moon's surface, and those pits lead to cav...
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Julia Hoeh is a bat tracker. For $350 a week plus basic housing in rural Tennessee, she stays up long after midnight to affix radio trackers to bats and collect samples of their DNA.
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TED Radio Host Guy Raz speaks with science writer and Sports Illustrated contributor David Epstein about why athletes are getting faster and stronger every year.
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Sunday is the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Buzz Aldrin about his new YouTube channel, where anyone can share memories from the historic day.
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The purple nut sedge, or nut grass, is generally considered a nasty, fast-spreading, and hard-to-kill nuisance weed today. But for our ancestors, it not only served as a nutritious meal, it cleaned their teeth, according to a new study o...
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A mysterious-sounding crater and a black that's so black you can't see it highlight this week's list: Mystery Crater Spotted Near 'End of the World ': It's tailor-made for crazy conspiracy theories: A mysterious crater has formed in a pa...
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At least six passengers on the Malaysia Airlines plane were heading to a major international Aids conference in Australia.
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Nine-month-old Owen Harper is one of the first babies to be born through a safer IVF technique developed by Imperial College in London
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Seven days, lots of science in the news. Here's our roundup of this week's most notable and quotable items: New pictures from the comet-chasing Rosetta spacecraft show that its target, the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, is actually tw...
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In 1975, a young Austrian physicist by the name of Fritjof Capra published a bestselling book called The Tao of Physics that still can be found on the science shelves of most bookstores. Capra claimed to see strong parallels between Hind...
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The Obama administration’s approval of guidelines for seismic searches for oil and gas in the Atlantic Ocean handed the petroleum industry a significant victory over environmental groups.
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AIDS researchers, activists and advocates en route to the 20th International AIDS conference in Melbourne, Australia are among those believed to have perished on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was shot down over Ukraine on Thursday. ...
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Our sun has gone quiet. Almost too quiet.
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Humans have been ruling Earth for a while now, but are we just a flash in the pan? Scientists are analyzing other species and asking whether any will eventually take over should we perish by plague, climate change, war, famine, you name ...
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Joep Lange, a pioneer from the early years of the AIDS crisis, played a key role in making H.I.V. treatments available in the developing world.
