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ISSUE: September 2002 |
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Times of Our Lives
By Karen Wright
Biological clocks help to keep our brains and bodies running on schedule |
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How to Build a Time Machine
By Paul Davies
It wouldn't be easy, but it might be possible |
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That Mysterious Flow
By Paul Davies
It feels as though time flows inexorably on. But that is an illusion |
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ISSUE: August 2002 |
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Does Dark Matter Really Exist?
By Mordehai Milgrom
Cosmologists have looked in vain for sources of mass that might make up 95 percent of the universe. Maybe it's time to stop looking. |
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ISSUE: July 2002 |
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15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense
By John Rennie
Opponents of evolution want to tear down real science, but their arguments don't hold up |
Gary Winchester 03.05.03 |
ISSUE: June 2002 |
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Essay: No Truth to the Fountain of Youth
By Bruce A. Carnes, Leonard Hayflick , S. Jay Olshansky |
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ISSUE: April 2002 |
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The Social Psychology of Modern Slavery
By Kevin Bales
Contrary to conventional wisdom, slavery has not disappeared from the world. Social scientists are trying to explain its persistence |
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Ripples in Spacetime
By W. Wayt Gibbs
LIGO, a controversial observatory for detecting gravity waves, is coming online after eight years and $365 million
Beware of products claiming scientific proof that they can slow aging |
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ISSUE: March 2002 |
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How Should Reading Be Taught?
By Keith Rayner, Barbara R. Foorman, Charles A. Perfetti, David Pesetsky and Mark S. Seidenberg
A highly popular method of teaching reading to children is inadequate on its own |
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ISSUE: January 2002 |
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The Economics of Fair Play
By Karl Sigmund, Ernst Fehr and Martin A. Nowak
Biology and economics may explain why we value fairness over rational selfishness |
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ISSUE: July 2001 |
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The Truth and the Hype of Hypnosis
By Michael R. Nash
Though often denigrated as fakery or wishful thinking, hypnosis has been shown to be a real phenomenon with a variety of therapeutic uses -- especially in controlling pain |
Caroline Gunter 02.26.03 |
ISSUE: January 2001 |
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Making Sense of Modern Cosmology
By P. James E. Peebles
Confused by all those theories? Good |
Elizabeth Robinson 03.06.03 |
ISSUE: September 2000 |
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Who Were the First Americans?
By Sasha Nemecek
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Kalyn Chumley 03.06.03 |
ISSUE: July 2000 |
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Where Are They?
By Ian Crawford
Maybe we are alone in the galaxy after all |
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ISSUE: December 1999 |
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The Unexpected Science to Come...
By Sir John Maddox
The most important discoveries of the next 50 years are likely to be ones of which we cannot now even conceive |
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ISSUE: April 1999 |
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Is Space Finite?
By Glenn D. Starkman , Jean-Pierre Luminet, Jeffrey R. Weeks
Conventional wisdom says the universe is infinite. But it could be finite, merely giving the illusion of infinity. Upcoming measurements may finally answer this ancient question |
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