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It collected the information in the 1990s, but questions were raised about apparent errors in the results.
Dr van Leeuwen, who saw a flaw in the wa read more »
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Mammoths are extinct, of course. No one knows if the cause was climate change, hungry Neanderthals or something else -- but they left behind remains, read more »
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Of course, we may well wonder whether as many people believe these things as say they do. I know that Christopher [Hitchens] and Richard [Dawkins] ar read more »
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On July 16, 2002, a survey crew from the Department of Transportation found Pam Kinamore's nude, decomposing body in the area along the banks of the read more »
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Stories about the role of Christianity in public life also prompted some lively discussion. "Are U.S. Troops Being Force Fed Christianity?" (a piec read more »
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Modern medicine has done much to eradicate and cure disease, but it has failed in some areas.
The most terrible is common cold. The common cold is a read more »
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Brazilian and Argentine paleontologists have discovered the largely complete fossil of a new species of giant dinosaur that roamed what is now northe read more »
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Michelle Hammond and Jeremiah Holland were intrigued when a friend at the Oakland Tribune asked them and their two young children to take part in a c read more »
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Getting out from under the thumb of foreign oil producers and saying goodbye to polluting power plants could be just a couple of scientific breakthro read more »
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FEW BRANCHES OF SCIENCE are as emotive as genetics, and few scientists have stoked the flames of debate quite like Craig Venter. For a decade or more read more »
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The Bush Administration long ago secured a special place in history for the way in which it distorts, manipulates, or censors science for political e read more »
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The Yellowstone "supervolcano" rose at a record rate since mid-2004, likely because a Los Angeles-sized, pancake-shaped blob of molten rock was inj read more »
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Scientists at the University of Oxford are trying to harness the energy released when bubbles collapse as a way of killing off cancer cells. read more »
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As science has proven, our bodies and minds have two responses to stressors. It’s called the "flight or fight" response. Either we react by fighti read more »
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Unless the international community agrees to cut carbon emissions by half over the next generation, climate change is likely to cause large-scale hum read more »
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