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Read More »Mechanical Advertising Novelties from 1911 [Slide Show]
Inventors are coming up with many advertising novelties: small mechanical toys made by various companies to advertise some kind of product or service. [More]
Read More »Update on the Bastrop, TX fires
Quick update on the Bastrop, TX fires. [More]
Read More »Musicans Maintain Hearing Better
Some people may be protected from the hearing loss that often accompanies aging: yes, musicians. Scientists gave hearing tests to 74 musicians and 89 non-musicians
Read More »Health Care Needs (More) Reform: Cancer Drugs Show How Markets Remain Out of Whack
The market for at least one class of vital drug seems to have gone haywire.
Read More »City Views: Small Quebec Town Serves as Iron Ore Gateway
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Read More »QR Tags Can Be Rigged to Attack Smartphones
You've probably seen QR tags thousands of times, from advertisements in the subway to coupon flyer in the mail to products in the supermarket. They look like stamp-size bar codes, a grid of small black-and-white rectangles and squares, usually with bigger black squares in the corners.
Read More »U.S. Scientists Aim for 10-Year-Plan to Predict Plant Adaptation
By Heidi Ledford of Nature magazine The perennial grass Miscanthus
Read More »U.S. Scientists Aim for 10-Year-Plan to Predict Plant Adaptation
By Heidi Ledford of Nature magazine The perennial grass Miscanthus
Read More »Kabul Embassy Was Beefed Up after 1998 Bombings in Kenya and Tanzania
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Read More »Kabul Embassy Was Beefed Up after 1998 Bombings in Kenya and Tanzania
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Read More »The Prince of Evolution: Lee Alan Dugatkin on Peter Kropotkin, Anarchism, and Cooperation in Nature
Evolutionary biologist Lee Alan Dugatkin has made his career studying the evolution of cooperation, so it makes perfect sense that the subject of his latest book would be an anarchist. [More]
Read More »The Prince of Evolution: Peter Kropotkin’s Adventures in Science and Politics
Editor's Note: The following excerpted from The Prince of Evolution: Peter Kropotkin's Adventures in Science and Politics
Read More »The Prince of Evolution: Peter Kropotkin’s Adventures in Science and Politics
Editor's Note: The following excerpted from The Prince of Evolution: Peter Kropotkin's Adventures in Science and Politics
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