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Energy: Friend or Enemy?
A review of The End of Energy: The Unmaking of America’s Environment, Security, and Independence by Michael J. Graetz...
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Why the U.S. Needs to Learn More Science
If the U.S. wants to keep its prominence as a world power and technological innovator in the 21st century,...
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Ancestor of All Living Things More Sophisticated Than Thought
The mysterious common ancestor of all life on Earth may have been more complex than before thought—a sophisticated organism...
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History That’s Written in Beads as Well as in Words
A small cadre of diverse collaborators in anthropology, archaeology, primatology, genetics, and linguistics have spent the last two and...
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Opinion: An Electrifying Ancestor
We know we got here from somewhere, but who would have suspected it was by way of a fish...
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Cancer-Free Rodent Genome May Hold Key to Aging, Disease
Scientists announced that they have succeeded in sequencing the full genome of the naked mole rat, an exceptionally long-lived...
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Cities Will Feel Brunt as Global Population Passes 7 Billion
To Joel Cohen, a professor of populations at Columbia, whether the Earth will be able to sustain 7 billion...
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5 Books on Global Food Systems
From Colin Sage’s Environment and Food to Michael Carolan’s The Real Cost of Cheap Food, here are a handful...
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The Hazy History of Air on Saturn’s Moon Titan
“Titan provides an extraordinary environment to better understand some of the chemical processes that led to the appearance of...
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Ancient Mud Volcanoes Perfect for Early Life
To learn more about life’s origins, scientists investigated some of the oldest remnants of crust on Earth—rocks 3.7 billion...