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Light Colors Become Fashion Rage For Northern Europe Insects
As northern Europe warms, the light-colored butterflies and dragonflies typically found in the Mediterranean are moving north, and outcompeting their darker-colored rivals. Erika Beras reports.
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Humans Aren't the Only Ones Sorry They Ate That
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Meet ‘The Physics Girl’, Winner of Alan Alda’s “What is Color?” Video Contest
Imagine you are a 5th grader while watching this video. Would you love it? If it caught your interest, as it did mine, you are in good company. This is the winning entry for the 2014 Flame Challenge put on by Alan Alda and the Center for Communicating Science. -
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What Do Your Tumor Genes Say About Your Prospects? The Quest, Part 7
In the past couple of months, three people have told me that they or someone they love has cancer. Fortunately in each case, the tumors were caught early and some combination of surgery and radiation was all the treatment that was likely to be needed. -
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A Fossil Hunt in Madagascar Yields Tall Dinosaur Tales
The world's fourth-largest island divulges fossils that could revolutionize scientific views on the origins of dinosaurs and mammals -
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Will the Real Introverts Please Stand Up?
Quick Quiz: Which of the following are signs of introversion? Highly sensitive Deep Thinker Reflective Introspective Intelligent Negative emotions Socially Anxious Defensive Vulnerable Always prefers solitude over social interaction Answer: Not a single one. -
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Star Trek's LeVar Burton to Be Scientific American Guest Web Editor June 11
NuqneH! Buy' ngop! That's "greetings" and "good news" in Klingon. These otherworldly tidings seem like a fitting way to let you know that LeVar Burton, who played the U.S.S. -
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How Fish Cool Off Global Warming
Fish save the world billions of dollars in damages by helping store carbon dioxide in the oceans -
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Genetically Modified Cheese… Is Nothing Safe? At the Boundaries of the GMO Controversy
A couple of years ago, my fiancée and I wanted to try to make some home-made mozzarella cheese, but ran into a problem. In order to turn milk into cheese, you have to add a substance called “rennet,” which causes the milk to coagulate, allowing you to separate the curd (mostly fats and hydrophobic proteins) [...] -
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Physicists Look Beyond the Large Hadron Collider, to the Very Large Hadron Collider
In 1954 the renowned physicist Enrico Fermi did a simple but depressing calculation about future particle accelerators. To create particles with an energy of 3 teraelectron-volts, he estimated, you’d have to build a ring 8,000 kilometers in radius at a cost of $170 billion. -
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Coming Soon: New Machines That Know Exactly What’s Bugging You
Machines that can quickly identify virtually any bacterium, virus or fungus are being developed for hospitals. Networking the devices could allow health authorities to save lives by spotting disease outbreaks earlier than ever before -
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World Cup to Debut Mind-Controlled Robotic Suit
Scientific American speaks with the scientist behind an innovation that will enable a paralyzed person to walk and “feel” it -
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Crocodylomorphs: Better Than Dinosaurs and Mammals Combined
Crocodiles, alligators and gharials are the modern members of a far grander, far more diverse clade of archosaurian reptiles termed Crocodylomorpha. -
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The Laser Beams That Pick Up Particles
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I Just Want to Say One Word to You: Plastiglomerate
Thanks to us humans, there's a new type of rock in the geologic record. And it's part plastic. David Biello reports
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Books Roundup: Creating Convictions
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Flash Floods Hit Afghanistan, At Least 58 Dead
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Are Human Pheromones Real?
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California Chrome's Genes May Be Key to Race for Triple Crown
California Chrome lacks a prestigious pedigree, but bears genes that make him born to run -
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Physics Week in Review: June 7, 2014
As you read this, we are flying home to Los Angeles after an exhausting but exhilarating trip: 10 days, 2 continents, 3 flights, 2 trains, 4 hotels, 18 car rides, 7 panel discussions, 3 interviews, and 5 lectures between the two of us. (The circles under my eyes are now saucers.) First stop: New York [...]
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