Science & Nature
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ATLAS Soared: Fabiola Gianotti and the Discovery of a Higgs Particle (Women In Science 19)
In a corner of a room, tucked unostentatiously away from the notice of the raving hordes of just barely contained…
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The Ghost of Evolution, or Why We Still Have Avocados + Guacamole!
Have you ever stopped to wonder about the avocado’s bizarrely large seed? How on earth this most scrumptious of plants…
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Caveman genes — what our shared history with Denisovans means
A recent article in Nature determines, fairly conclusively, that a certain variant of a certain gene which allows Tibetans to…
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Art Inquisition: Is Climate Change a Bummer?
Amid the hubbub of their grand opening, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science lost part of one of their displays. On…
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Neil Shubin’s Your Inner Fish
If you haven’t seen any of Neil Shubin’s 3 part series, Your Inner Fish on PBS, start now! It can…
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A Voice from the Silent Spring: The Life and Ecology of Rachel Carson
“Hunger, hunger, are you listening, To the words from Rachel’s pen? Words which taken at face value, Place lives of…
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