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If Poachers and Illegal Loggers Strike, This Forest Phones It In
Environmentalists are bugging rainforests with discarded smartphones to catch poachers and illegal loggers -
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How You Can Hide Your Smartphone Data from Thieves—and the Cops
A new software technique thwarts forensic software by making indiscernible changes in a handset’s operating system -
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Starbucks to Offer Wireless Caffeine for Smartphones
The coffee chain is putting wireless mobile device charging on the menu, a harbinger of cable-free communications and computing -
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Energy & Sustainability
Wildlife at Belize Resort Pushed by Travolta Could Have Trouble Stayin’ Alive
The A-list actor is promoting a proposed billionaire’s playground in Puerto Azul, complete with a private airport and racetrack, that could endanger the marine habitat -
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Energy & Sustainability
It’s Frack, Baby, Frack, as Conventional Gas Drilling Declines [Infographic]
Hydraulic fracturing has offset dwindling traditional sources, but that trend may not last long -
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With Prizes Like This, Who Needs a Nobel?
Five mathematicians, working in a field spurned by the Nobel academies as a matter of course, will receive $3-million awards of their own -
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Cold Comfort: The Ethnography of Refrigerators [Slide Show]
What a ubiquitous appliance reveals about us -
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Liquid Water in an Icy No Man’s Land
Scientists probe the strange physics of water at super-low temperatures -
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Drones Bring Fight and Flight to Battle against Poachers [Slide Show]
Drones are the latest weapon in the antipoaching fight but their deployment remains dogged by security fears, lack of regulations -
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161 Bird-Watcher Apps for the iPhone—and They’re All for the Birds [Slide Show]
Mobile devices promise to give bird-watchers new tools for their fieldwork, but smartphone apps for identifying these aviators are not quite ready to leave the nest -
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Space
If Spacetime Were a Superfluid, Would It Unify Physics—or Is the Theory All Wet?
Thinking of space and time as a liquid might help reconcile quantum mechanics and relativity
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Energy & Sustainability
Can Open Patents or Zippy Race Cars Spur Electric Car Sales?
Electric cars, no matter how sexy, still have a battery problem -
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Health
HIV on Trial: An Attempt to Cure the World’s Smallest Patients
New global clinical trial aims to replicate the mysterious “Mississippi baby” success -
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Energy & Sustainability
El Niño Could Make U.S. Weather More Extreme during 2014
Scientists report increased likelihood that El Niño will prevail
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The World’s Most Popular Numbers [Excerpt]
Surveys show many people have favorite numerals, but some numbers are much more likely to be chosen than others
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Reading Techniques Help Students Master Science
Outlining, annotating and typing notes all improve understanding in high school and college -
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Health
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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Energy & Sustainability
Carbon Dioxide Emissions Rise with Rebounding Economy
Efficiency improvements reduced emissions slightly from 2008 to 2012, but the Great Recession cut output the most -
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Evolution
Lyme Disease’s Possible Bacterial Predecessor Found in Ancient Tick
A juvenile tick trapped in a 15-million- to 20-million-year-old piece of amber contains a bacterium that could be the oldest documented ancestor of the microbe that causes Lyme disease -
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Space
When Galaxy Clusters Crash, Light Warps and Particles Fly
New observations of a behemoth collision reveal extreme physical forces at work
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