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British Team Abandons Drilling in Antarctic Lake
An ambitious British plan to search for minute forms of life in an ancient lake beneath Antarctica’s ice has...
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Will the First True ‘Alien Earth’ Be Found in 2013?
The first truly Earth-like alien planet is likely to be spotted next year, an epic discovery that would cause...
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New Form of Quantum Computation Will Challenge Ordinary Computers
You’ve heard the hype a hundred times: Physicists hope to someday build a whiz-bang quantum computer that can solve...
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Space Company Tests Reusable Rocket
A Southern California-based space company has successfully tested a reusable rocket it hopes will make it cheaper to go...
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Dragonflies Have Human-Like Selective Attention
In a discovery that may prove important for cognitive science, our understanding of nature and applications for robot vision,...
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The Trash We’ve Left on the Moon
Recently, two probes that had spent the past year orbiting the moon for NASA’s GRAIL mission slammed into the...
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A Backdoor Way to Do Experiments on Exotic Gravitational Physics
The whole point of an explanation is to reduce something you don’t know to something you do. By that...
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State of the World’s Science
The pursuit of knowledge is now a global enterprise. Scientific American and Nature have teamed up on this special...
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NASA Crashes Twin Probes Into the Moon
NASA concluded its Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) moon mission by crashing two probes into the lunar surface...