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  Cosmic-Ray Telescope, a New Era for Voter Opinion Polling, the Turboprop Comeback and More in Scientific American’s November Issue

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• Scientific American Volume 311, Issue 5 | More Science

  The Future of Election Forecasting

  Landlines are dying—and taking phone-based opinion polling with them
  9 hours ago |Regina Nuzzo |2
• A Matter of Time | More Science

  Sean Carroll Entangles Time and Entropy

  A timely conversation with physicist Sean M. Carroll about how our one-way trip from the past to the future is entangled with entropy and the origin of the universe
  10 hours ago |John Matson |1
• 60-Second Earth | Energy & Sustainability

  Clock Ticking On Climate Change Prevention

  The  United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 's new synthesis report adds urgency to the need to cut additional greenhouse gas pollution. 
  12 hours ago |David Biello |1
• Scientific American Mind Volume 25, Issue 6 | Mind & Brain

  The Brain Upgrades We Covet Most

  Technology is shaping our thinking about mental abilities and their improvement
  November 1, 2014 |4
• Scientific American Volume 311, Issue 5 | More Science

  Birds Heading South for the Winter Get Conflicting Directions

  Mom and dad can give some migrating birds mixed signals about how to get home
  November 1, 2014 |Jason G. Goldman |1
• A Matter of Time | More Science

  What Time Is It?

  The chronic complaint
  November 1, 2014 |1
• Cocktail Party Physics | Space

  Physics Week in Review: November 1, 2014

  Hope everyone enjoyed their Halloween festivities. Here’s a few other related links: The ghostly glow of St. Elmo’s fire: it works the same way that a neon light glows.  The Levitating Halloween Pumpkin with a superconductor inside.&
  November 1, 2014 |Jennifer Ouellette |
• 60-Second Health | Health

  Plan Now for Future Ebola Outbreaks

  Diagnostics, vaccines and new drugs could vastly improve the way future Ebola outbreaks manifest in Africa, according to emerging infectious disease expert Jeremy Farrar. Steve Mirsky reports.
  
   
  October 31, 2014 |Steve Mirsky |
• News | Health

  Louisiana Scuttles Medical Conference Plans over Ebola Fears

  Organizers of tropical medicine meeting to offer refunds, swap out speakers
  October 31, 2014 |Dina Fine Maron |
• TechMediaNetwork | Space

  Virgin Galactic's Passenger Spacecraft Crash Kills Pilot

  One pilot is dead, and one injured after SpaceShipTwo failed during a rocket-powered test flight over Mohave, Calif.
  October 31, 2014 |Miriam Kramer and SPACE.com |3
• News | Health

  Hints of Progress in the Ebola Fight

  The number of Ebola cases appear to be dropping in Liberia—but what will it take to stamp out the disease?
  October 31, 2014 |Dina Fine Maron |
• Climate Confidential | Technology

  Drones Learn to Swarm [Video]

  Insectile drones could evolve into useful minions to track, map, and respond to climate change
  October 31, 2014 |Mary Catherine O'Connor and Climate Confidential |
• Scientific American Volume 311, Issue 5 | More Science

  Book Review: Symbiont

  October 31, 2014 |
• News | Evolution

  New Artifact-Filled Chambers Revealed under Teotihuacan

  Rooms beneath the mysterious city contain jade statues, jaguar remains and thousands of other objects
  October 31, 2014 |Erik Vance |
• News | Space

  Rocket Explosion Prompts Doubts about Commercial Spaceflight

  This week’s fiery failure of Orbital Sciences’s Antares rocket has some wondering if the company has the right stuff to support NASA’s goal to outsource orbital flights
  October 31, 2014 |Lee Billings |7
• Cross-Check | Space

  'Theory of Everything' Brilliantly Dramatizes Paradox of Modern Science

  I met Stephen Hawking in the summer of 1990, when I spent five days in northern Sweden at a conference attended by 30 or so leading cosmologists.
  October 31, 2014 |John Horgan |
• Climatewire | Energy & Sustainability

  Combing the Atmosphere with Lasers to Measure Global Warming Pollution

  Scientists prepare an inexpensive, accurate tool to track greenhouse gas concentrations
  October 31, 2014 |Niina Heikkinen, Gayathri Vaidyanathan and ClimateWire |1
• Inside Science News Service | Evolution

  How to Win Friends and Influence Ducklings

  How should you treat your ducks? The answer is mired in duckling politics
  October 31, 2014 |Nala Rogers and Inside Science News Service |
• Nature | Health

  Science Looks into Immortal Pets

  A new experiment will study life span extension via an antiaging drug administered to domestic dogs
  October 31, 2014 |Erika Check Hayden and Nature magazine |

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