Freeing the dinos within
Paleontologists have long faced a daunting obstacle to their research: Fossils are usually embedded in rock. To manually wrench the…
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Supersized Viruses
On February 22, festival-goers at Melbourne’s dusk-to-dawn White Night celebration lined up in droves outside the State Library of Victoria…
Paging Dr. Data
For doctors who treat trauma patients, prediction is key: Will a patient die in the next 30 minutes? Why or…
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Almost every device that needs energy also wastes energy. Cars get their zip by burning gasoline, but that process heats up the…
Descartes’ Decipherer
Erik-Jan Bos, a philosopher at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, unearthed research gold with an Internet search. In putting together…
Cars of the Future
We won't be driving the cars of the future; more likely, they'll be driving us. They'll park themselves, run on…