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Posted to Scientific American on October 14, 2008 at 10:56am
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Spending your life hanging out at the seaside might sound like easy livin’. But for marine mussels, a day at the shore is no walk on the beach. Clinging to a boulder in the intertidal zone, a mussel might find that the temperature of its
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Posted to Scientific American on October 14, 2008 at 1:57am
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The leading cause of infant death in developed countries, sudden infant death syndrome, is still largely a medical mystery. Past studies have revealed that in the brain stems of more than half of infants who die from SIDS, the neurons that produce
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Posted to Scientific American on October 14, 2008 at 1:57am
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In the middle of Los Angeles’s endless sprawl sits an unusual-looking gas station made of recycled materials and sustainably harvested wood. Its roof is an abstract assembly of polygons topped with solar panels. The owner, petroleum giant BP,
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Posted to Scientific American on October 14, 2008 at 1:57am
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As forest landowners shift their attention away from logging toward more lucrative--and destructive--uses such as suburban development, forest conservation is more crucial than ever. Historically, protecting woodlands has been a slow and difficult
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Posted to Scientific American on October 13, 2008 at 5:16pm
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John Adams's Doctor Atomic, an opera in two acts about the birth of the atom bomb, will make its New York City debut at the Metropolitan Opera tonight (October 13). Adams is one of our finest classical composers, well-known for his earlier operatic
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Posted to Scientific American on October 13, 2008 at 5:16pm
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When John McCain's campaign last week pulled out of Michigan--the state New York Times columnist Frank Rich called "ground zero for the collapsed Main Street economy"--it seemed to signal, along with a widening opinion poll gap between the candidates,
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Posted to Scientific American on October 13, 2008 at 5:16pm
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Researchers insist they can tell someone's politlcal affiliation by looking at the condition of their offices and bedrooms. Messy? You're a lefty. A neatnik? Welcome to the Right. According to a controversial new study, set to be published in The
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Posted to Scientific American on October 13, 2008 at 5:16pm
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Editor's note: This story was originally published in our April 1994 issue, and has been reposted to highlight the long history of Nobelists publishing in Scientific American. The real wage of the average American worker more than doubled between
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Posted to Scientific American on October 13, 2008 at 5:16pm
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Where candidates Barack Obama and John McCain stand on science, key races involving science, energy, and the environment, and the what neuroscience says about how you'll vote [More]
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Posted to Scientific American on October 13, 2008 at 12:53pm
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Whenever national elections occur, debates arise over which voting technology is most accurate and least susceptible to tampering. The arguments have been waged ever since mechanical machines arrived more than a century ago as an alternative to paper
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