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- Health & Medicine
Laptops and infertility: It matters how you sit
Men who keep their legs together while using the computers generate more sperm-endangering scrotal heat than those who splay them, a study finds.
- Space
Milky Way’s black hole may blow bubbles
Astronomers have discovered two giant blobs of gamma ray–emitting gas above and below the galaxy’s center.
- Animals
Acidification may halve coral class of 2050
Already shown to be a threat to established reefs, experiments show that changing ocean chemistry also threatens the establishment and survival of larvae.
- Life
Three scientists, three wishes (with extras for the cosmologist)
Research luminaries reveal the questions they'd most like to see answered.
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Don’t forget beauty
An ornithologist argues that arbitrary preferences may have a place in the bird world.
- Life
Soil search suggests broad roots for antibiotic resistance
Drug-defeating genes are everywhere, but don’t blame dirt-dwelling bacteria for resistance seen in the clinic.
- Earth
Mining the maritime past for clues to climate’s future
Researchers collect data through a mashup of 19th century ship records and 21st century crowdsourcing.
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Sources of Einstein’s comments
Leopold Infeld, Albert Einstein: His work and its influence on our world. Charles Scribner’s Sons,1950, p. 110 Max Born, The Born-Einstein Letters. Macmillan, 1971, pp. 168-69, 192. Albert Einstein, “Physics and Reality,” in Ideas and Opinions, Dell Publishing, 1973, pp. 307-308, 310-311. Albert Einstein, “The Fundaments of Theoretical Physics,” in Ideas and Opinions, Dell Publishing, […]
- Tech
Seeing red: Next installment in BPA-paper saga
Consumers now have a way to identify cash register tape that is free of endocrine-disrupting chemical.
- Humans
Climate researcher speaks out
BLOG: Michael Mann says scientists have lost control of the public message about climate change, Alexandra Witze reports from the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing meeting.
- Earth
Hurricane forecasts can be made years in advance
Climate modelers say they can push Atlantic predictions beyond a single season.
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