Conspiracy Theories – Top Ten Conspiracies | LiveScience

10 Conspiracy Theories Conspiracy. Just saying the word in conversation can make people politely edge away, looking for someone who won’t corner them with wild theories about how Elvis, John F. Kennedy, and Bigfoot are cryogenically frozen in an underground bunker. Yet c …

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10 Species You Can Kiss Goodbye | LiveScience

Vanishing Species? Think the polar bear has it bad? Here are 10 critters that are even worse off than our favorite threatened Arctic resident. Listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List as critically endangered, meaning they face an extremely …

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Analytic thinking can decrease religious belief, study shows

A new University of British Columbia study finds that analytic thinking can decrease religious belief, even in devout believers.

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Photoreceptor transplant restores vision in mice

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Boundary between electronics and biology is blurring: First proof of ferroelectricity in simplest amino acid

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Atomic blockade: Technique efficiently creates single photons for quantum information processing

ScienceDaily (Apr. 19, 2012) — Using lasers to excite just one atom from a cloud of ultra-cold rubidium gas, physicists have developed a new way to rapidly and efficiently create single photons for potential use in optical quantum information processing -- and in the  …

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Strange cousins: Molecular alternatives to DNA, RNA offer new insight into life’s origins

ScienceDaily (Apr. 19, 2012) — Living systems owe their existence to a pair of information-carrying molecules: DNA and RNA. These fundamental chemical forms possess two features essential for life: they display heredity -- meaning they can encode and pass on genetic i …

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Will Your State Be Next to Stop Teaching Evolution?

Thanks to ALEC, the Volunteer State has adopted a law intended to undermine the teaching of evolution in public schools. Just don't expect them to stop there. Four score and seven years ago, a Tennessee high school biology teacher named John Scopes was charged with teaching evol …

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Tennessee Skewers Teaching of Evolution in Schools — Is Your State Next?

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On the border between matter and anti-matter: Nanoscientists find long-sought Majorana particle

ScienceDaily (Apr. 13, 2012) — Scientists at TU Delft's Kavli Institute and the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM Foundation) have succeeded for the first time in detecting a Majorana particle. In the 1930s, the brilliant Italian physicist Ettore Majo …

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