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A smashed shell may have been crumpled by an ambling dinosaur
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The Darker Side of John Wesley Powell
Like other early American geologists, the man who explored the Colorado River did anthropological research that presupposed the racial inferiority of Native Americans
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It’s Raining on the Sun
Structures in the corona called “null-point topologies” may help solve two long-standing solar mysteries
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Why It's Smart to Be Reckless on Wall Street
Here is a guaranteed way to get paid well if you work on Wall Street. Find a best friend at a competing bank or hedge fund and take opposite sides of the same large bet.
Can Children Teach Themselves?
Sugata Mitra gave street kids in a slum in New Delhi access to a computer connected to the Internet, and found that they quickly taught themselves how to use it.
Spark Magazine: Student Science Magazine Of York University
Many universities have dedicated student-run science publications. Such publications are ideal places for young science writers to work with or as part of an editorial team, build up confidence and grow their portfolios...
20 Questions with the Space Station
I've been a freelancer for over 20 years. It's not quite accurate to say there aren't benefits. There are; they just don't include health care and employer-matched IRAs.
Scicurious Guest Writer! Alcohol and Caffeine: No need to go Loko
Please welcome this month's Scicurious Guest Writer: Elizabeth Aston! We all enjoy going out for a few drinks, but sometimes, just when the party’s getting started, we feel like passing out!...
#SciAmBlogs Tuesday - PTSD, ideal of objectivity, energy sequester, synaesthesia, Mars sample, Your Brain on Cookies, and more.
And we have a brand new Image of the Week!- Kali Tal - PTSD: The Futile Search for the “Quick Fix” - Joel Taylor - The Quantum Coin: A Simple Look at the 2-State Quantum System - Janet D...
A Visit to an India Full of Science and Engineering
I am writing this to you from New Delhi, India as I am here with the International Reporting Project as a New Media Specialist! We have been in the crowded, bustling, port city of Mumbai, the central city of Nagpur (home of several tiger refuges), the rural village area of Gadchiroli, and finally to the modern city of New Delhi in order to examine issues of child survival...
Agave pollen in honey
Image of the Week #81, February 26th, 2013: From: Bees under the Microscope by Charles Crookenden at the Guest Blog .
Tragedy in New Zealand: Dozens of Critically Endangered Birds Dead, Cause Unknown
Efforts to save the critically endangered shore plover from extinction in New Zealand have suffered a major setback: nearly 60 of the birds have died due to unknown causes, reducing the world population of the species to just 200.Shore plovers (also known as shore dotterels or Tuturuatu, Thinornis novaeseelandiae ) lived on both of New Zealand's main islands before European settlers introduced cats and rats that nearly eradicated the species during the nineteenth century...
Your Brain on Cookies
I have decided that one of the ways I will utilize this new blog space is to comic-ify other SciAm posts. This week, I felt inspired by Scicurious's post about food "addictions:" Of course I'm stressed, I'm in cookie withdrawal.To study the withdrawal-like effects of stopping a high fat diet, researchers took two groups of mice -- one that had been on a low fat diet for 6 weeks, and one that had been on a high fat diet for 6 weeks...
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