Articles filed under Science
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Do these 8 things and you will be more creative and insightful, neuroscientists sayJul 11, 2015 7:35 am - Tests of human intelligence show that as IQ, the measure of our analytical thinking skills, appears to be on the rise, creative thinking may be on the wane as our hyper-...
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Why we're so scared of GMOsJul 11, 2015 7:00 am - When Chipotle announced earlier this year that it would no longer serve food made with genetically modified organisms due to safety concerns, customers rejoiced. But the...
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Pluto-bound spacecraft carrying ashes of Illinois astronomerJul 11, 2015 1:00 am - Associated Press STREATOR, Ill. - The NASA spacecraft set to complete a flyby of Pluto on Tuesday is carrying some of the ashes of the Illinois astronomer who discovered...
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Hawaii limits access to Mauna Kea amid telescope protestsJul 11, 2015 1:00 am - Associated Press HONOLULU - Hawaii officials have voted to impose an emergency rule to restrict access to Mauna Kea after protesters blocked construction of a giant tele...
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Why Fermilab could blast up campus, shake up Batavia neighborsJul 07, 2015 5:30 am - At least 300 billion neutrinos passed through one of your fingernails in the time it took you to read this sentence. And while they passed through you, your office door...
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Salvagers on hunt in North Central College housesJul 07, 2015 1:00 am - Brian Bock of Naperville was envisioning the possibilities Tuesday as he tore down wood trim and ripped out windows from an old house on the North Central College campus...
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Now that we can edit our genome, where do we go?Jul 06, 2015 6:00 am - Every human genome contains the blueprints for building a person, a library of roughly 20,000 genes that encode everything from eye color to cancer risk. Imagine if tho...
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Inaction on climate change would cost billions, major EPA study findsJul 05, 2015 6:32 am - A global agreement to curb greenhouse gas emissions would prevent nearly 70,000 premature American deaths annually by the end of the century while sparing the country hu...
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A first: New guidelines back device for treating strokesJul 04, 2015 7:00 am - Many stroke patients have a new treatment option - if they seek help fast enough to get it. New guidelines endorse using a removable stent to open clogged arteries causi...
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Pope bringing environmental message to South AmericaJul 04, 2015 1:00 am - AGUARAGUE NATIONAL PARK, Bolivia - In the vine-entangled forests of the Aguarague National Park, crude that seeped for decades out of abandoned wellheads saturates the s...