Time
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Traveling Through Time and Stars
October 22, 2009
In Far Out, stunning astronomical images and lyrical essays on the nature of light and space explore the universe’s past.
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Up the Cosmic Distance Ladder
October 19, 2009
The development of astronomy can be seen as a millennia-long quest to measure and know the true scale of the natural world.
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Back From the Future
October 16, 2009
A crazy theory about the Higgs-Boson sparks debate in the physics community, and the perils of cloud computing becomes all too real.
lhc, risk, technology, time, truth, week in review
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Crash Course in Relativity
August 25, 2009
A Seed editor documents, chapter by chapter, her experience reading Why Does E=mc2?
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Immortal Information
June 15, 2009
A new nanoscale storage device could preserve all the digital information you want, for as long as you want—and longer.
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The Amazing Race
February 25, 2009
The Linguists depicts an around-the-world race to make audio recordings of dying languages, giving us a glimpse of how technology can promote language diversity.
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Evolution of Life in 60 Seconds
February 12, 2009
A video experiment in scale, condensing 4.6 billion years of history into a minute.
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From Earth to the Universe
December 31, 2008
Seed kicks off the International Year of Astronomy with a slideshow of awe-inspiring astronomical snapshots of our universe.
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A Still Curious Case
December 24, 2008
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button grapples with age-old fears of death and aging, physiological processes that modern science is only beginning to understand.
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Needham’s Grand Question
December 15, 2008
As China reemerges on the science frontier, Simon Winchester offers a vivid account of one man's mission to illuminate its innovative past.
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A Grave Discovery
November 08, 2005
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3D Is Our Cosmic Destiny
October 01, 2005
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World
Sad Sacks
As a UK adviser is fired over politically unpalatable advice and an English teacher is suspended over an article about animal sexuality, the fate of facts is on the line.
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Ideas
Sweet Obesity
As obesity rates soar, Americans are consuming more low-calorie artificial sweeteners. But do artificial sweeteners actually help people lose weight?
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Books
Books to Read Now
November releases feature the mysteries of Grigori Perelman, the evolutionary origins of reading, and strategies for containing strains of flu.
