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Central Park Features Worldwide Soil Microbes
The soil in Manhattan's Central Park contains microbial life that also exists in deserts, frozen tundra, forests, rainforests and prairies. Steve Mirsky reports.
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Mind & Brain
U.S. Big Science Project Starts Search for Tools to Understand ALS, PTSD, PD, TBI, ALZ …
A signature science program of the Obama administration’s second term—one intended to develop technologies and a base of knowledge to solve long-standing mysteries of the how the brain works—has finally reached cruising altitude. -
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Aging: How to Have Long Goodbye [Video] - The 64th Annual Lindau Meeting
How can we best reach a vigorous old age? Nature Video examined this question during this summer's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, which brought early-career biologists together with Nobel Prize–winners -
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Camera Traps Reveal Secretive Snow Leopards up Close [Slide Show]
Remote-sensor cams deployed in a Himalayan valley at altitudes of up to 5,000 meters help ecologists gather data on one of the world’s most furtive animals -
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Do We Live in a Holographic Universe?
An experiment going up outside of Chicago will attempt to measure the intimate connections among information, matter and spacetime. If it works, it could rewrite the rules for 21st-century physics -
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How Green Is Your Coffee?
More environmentally beneficial shade-grown coffee has actually declined as sales of supposedly sustainable coffee have risen -
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Dark Energy Discernment Dithers over Quantum Jitters or an Undetected Field
Astrophysicist Joshua Frieman seeks to pinpoint the mysterious substance driving the accelerating expansion of the universe -
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Mind & Brain
Tiny Lights Could Illuminate Brain Activity
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Fracking Companies Fight EPA's Proposed Chemical Disclosure Rules
Chemical manufacturers say public listings could reveal trade secrets -
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How to Solve the Famous Birthday Problem
What are the chances that two players on the same soccer team share a birthday? How about two students in the same algebra class? Both seem pretty unlikely, right? The answer might surprise you! -
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Can Science Avert a Coffee Crisis?
Researchers are racing to breed beneficial new traits into the dangerously homogeneous coffee crop before it succumbs to disease or other threats -
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Smart Park Benches Weigh Sitters
In a bid to boost fitness, new park benches in Moscow will let sitters see their weight and receive health tips. Dina Fine Maron reports
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First Ebola Case Diagnosed in the U.S.
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Sea Garbage Shows Ocean Boundaries
Floating refuse reveals ocean currents that in turn show where the world's oceans mix and where they stay relatively discrete. Karen Hopkin reports
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Dolphins May Use Magnetic Sense as GPS
Dolphins can sense magnetism, suggesting that they track Earth’s magnetic field to navigate through the water -
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How Much Are Drug Companies Paying Your Doctor?
New data released today will promote transparency and help patients know when docs receive money from product makers -
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Damaged Fuel Rods Found at Nuclear Power Plant
Dominion Virginia Power has discovered two damaged nuclear fuel rods at its North Anna power plant, 90 miles (140 km) southwest of Washington, and has shut it down -
Life, Unbounded
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Interstellar Environments May Breed Complex Organic Molecules
If biologically important organic molecules like amino acids could form in interstellar space, the implications would be enormous. On the Earth we find plenty of amino acid species inside certain types of meteorites, so at a minimum these compounds can form during the assembly of a proto-stellar, proto-planetary system (at least this one) and end [...] -
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Blind Cavefish Stops Its Internal Clock
The eyeless cavefish saves energy by freezing its circadian rhythm -
Scientific American Volume 311, Issue 4
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Alaska Highway Getting More Bumps in the Road
Melting permafrost under the roadbed is causing substantial damage
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