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A Well-Deserved Physics Nobel
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50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: October 2019
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What a Koala Virus Tells Us About the Human Genome
A study illuminates how genes defend against viral invasions
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Indigenous Remains Do Not Belong to Science
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A Well-Deserved Physics Nobel
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Policy & Ethics
50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: October 2019
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Policy & Ethics
The Executive Branch Must Stop Suppressing Science
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Behavior & Society
Ancient Teeth Reveal Social Stratification Dates Back to Bronze Age Societies
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Massive California Power Outage Triggers Chaos in Science Labs
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Mini Gravitational-Wave Detector Could Probe Dark Matter
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I’m Convinced We Found Evidence of Life on Mars in the 1970s
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I’m Convinced We Found Evidence of Life on Mars in the 1970s
The Labeled Release experiment on the Viking mission reported positive results, although most have dismissed them as inorganic chemical reactions
Giant Molecules Exist in Two Places at Once in Unprecedented Quantum Experiment
The new study demonstrates a bizarre quantum effect at never-before-seen scales
String Theory Does Not Win a Nobel, and I Win a Bet
Science writer John Horgan wins a 2002 bet with physicist Michio Kaku that by 2020 no unified theory of physics will win a Nobel Prize...
A Molecular Universe
Forget galaxies, stars and planets; the cosmos is really a complex chemical system
A Well-Deserved Physics Nobel
Jim Peebles’ award honors modern cosmological theory at last
How Did Water Get on Earth?
About 70 percent of our planet’s surface is covered with water, and it plays an important role in our daily lives. But how did water get on Earth in the first place?
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A CRISPR Doyen Discusses Gene-Editing Challenges
Jennifer Doudna, winner of the 2018 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience, talks to Scientific American about what it’s like to work in perhaps the hottest research area in all of biology...
