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Perfect Strangers
November 16, 2009
The eerie emotional response brought on by near-duplicates of our selves raises interesting questions about perception and expectations.
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Mars: A Teeming Past?
November 09, 2009
Questions of extraterrestrial life rest on theories of Martian history.
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Awkward Beauty
October 15, 2009
The Science Creative Quarterly editor on the complicated relationship between science and art.
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Not Just for Fence-Sitters
September 22, 2009
Dawkins’ new book, The Greatest Show on Earth, demonstrates the power of storytelling in communicating evolution’s biological evidence.
bias, data, featured blogger, public perception, theory, truth
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A Universal Truth
September 17, 2009
The universality of basic science may be the deepest link between the US and the Muslim world.
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Business as Abnormal
September 14, 2009
The recent flirtation with geoengineering may prove a dangerous distraction from working toward a sustainable future.
climate, featured blogger, geography, multilateralism, policy
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An In Vitro Beef
August 31, 2009
Even if meat isn’t murder, that doesn’t mean it’s good for you.
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Because E=mc2
August 25, 2009
On the beauty and significance of the world’s most oft-cited but less oft-understood equation.
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Not So Fast
August 11, 2009
The NIH aims to map the connectivity of the human brain in five years. But a definitive atlas of the brain will remain out of our grasp for a long time.
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Reconciling an Ordinary World
July 29, 2009
Advances in materials and techniques bring physicists a step closer to observing the oddities of quantum behavior at the real-world scale.
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Cash for Eggs
July 22, 2009
There should be no question about researchers paying for egg donations.
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Innovation
Let There Be Light
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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Ideas
Into the Uncanny Valley
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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World
Signs from Above
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.
