Feature
- Animals
Face Smarts
Macaques, sheep and even wasps may join people as masters at facial recognition.
- Planetary Science
Planetary Peekaboo
Astronomers aren’t playing games when it comes to spotting an exoEarth.
- Tech
When Networks Network
Once studied solo, systems display surprising behavior when they interact.
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Making Data Work
Researchers pursue analogy between statistical evidence and thermodynamics.
- Earth
The facts behind the frack
The gas, primarily methane, is cheap and relatively clean. Because America is brimful of the stuff, harvesting the fuel via fracking could provide the country jobs and reduce its dependence on foreign sources of energy.
