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Just to play Devil's advocate, what if we let the Arctic melt a bit to get the benefits of a Northwest Passage?
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Raymond Tallis has a list of scathing criticisms aimed at physics and neurology. It would sure help his points if he knew what he was talking about...
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Today's politicians look at science with thinly veiled contempt. This is why they shouldn't be in charge of micromanaging its goals and funding.
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For an instant spacesuit, just add plasma or electrons. But don't stay in it for too long...
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Despite the bad rap technocrats get, they're absolutely needed to keep dogma and blind faith from hijacking the day to day working of governments.
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A new experiment unlocks quantum behaviors that can make laser beams more cohesive and negotiate more complicated trajectories.
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Massive volcanic eruptions leave their mark on the climate record we can gleam from tree rings. And some scientists have new ideas for how to best track them...
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An individual heat wave may not mean much. But we're not seeing the occasional heat wave, we're seeing a disturbing pattern of them.
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Amazingly, you can cool something to below absolute zero. And what happens when you do is really, really weird...
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A new potential life-extension drug is performing extremely well in mice. Will these results translate well to humans?
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Alcohol isn't just the cause of and answer to most of life's problems, it also tells us something fundamental about the nature of all matter.
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It seems we finally understand something about black holes and their behavior.
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Geneticist Jerry Crabtree jumps on the natural-selection-for-humans-is-dead bandwagon with a study of human intelligence that doesn't say what he thinks it does.
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Why is R'yleh, the fictional underwater city where Cthulhu lies dead-dreaming, appear so insanely unreal, literally? One physicist thinks he knows the answer.
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Scientists found a way to temporary induce psychopathy in text subjects, and that has some mulling the darker applications of this technology.
