There are technological ways to hide a planet from intergalactic detection – as well as ways to signal that we’re just sitting here, eager for contact.
Charles Manson, pictured during his trial.
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What makes cults so attractive to their followers?
Most of us agree inequality is a problem, but solutions and causes differ greatly depending on our partisan blinders.
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New research on first impressions offers hope that the presidential front-runners may still be able to win over voters who have unfavorable opinions of them.
Temelin nuclear power plant, Czech Republic.
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Recent terrorist attacks have heightened concerns about the security of nuclear plants. A former top U.S. nuclear regulator says security is weak at many sites worldwide.
Deficiencies in a critical nutrient can lead to an abnormally wired brain. Illustration of a network of nerve cells in the.
brain.
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Brooklyn Dodgers President Branch Rickey liked to take credit for breaking the color barrier. In truth, it was the culmination of a long campaign waged by the left wing press and labor unions.
The Boss canceled a concert in North Carolina.
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A new agreement between the European Union and the U.S. would provide more protection of Europeans’ data against American mass surveillance than was required before.
How can more kids be interested in science?
Shawn Anderson
A ‘leaky STEM pipeline’ keeps many women, racial and ethnic minorities as well as adults from low-income families from pursuing STEM careers. How early do these leaks begin?
When it comes to TV use energy, calling one household ‘average’ can be misleading.
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People who watch a lot of TV consume a disproportionate amount of electricity so we should tailor energy efficiency incentive programs to these and other big energy users.
Available online: Georgetown’s high-throughput equipment for biomarker staining.
Science and technology research has become so complicated and expensive that a gap has grown between the experiments scientists would like to do and what they have the means to do.
An electoral officer in Benin.
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A classical political science debate focuses on whether democracy is dependent on development. The director of the Electoral Integrity Project revisits the issue using new data from African elections.
Patients and companions at the Cholera Treatment Center in Haiti, April 2015.
Andres Martinez Casares
The extinction threat you haven’t heard of: several South American birds teeter on the brink of existence due to habitat loss. And history is not the best guide for how to save them.
Is this robot refusing a human order?
Jiuguang Wang
You don’t have to be a physician or anatomist to be curious about how bodies work. Exhibits of dead human specimens have been around for quite a while – capitalizing on our fascination with death.
Posters advertise the dramatization of Sinclair Lewis’ ‘It Can’t Happen Here.’
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Sinclair Lewis’ 1935 novel ‘It Can’t Happen Here,’ which described the rise of an American dictator, was turned into a play seen by over 500,000 people.
Activists surround Shell Oil rig in Seattle’s Elliot Bay to protest Arctic drilling plans.
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Offshore drilling debates boil down to “Drill, baby, drill” versus “spill, baby, spill.” But economists say the right question is when we know enough to drill safely – and often that means waiting.