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Hunting Hidden Dimensions
Black holes, giant and tiny, may reveal new realms of space.
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Broken Symmetry
Scientists seek mechanisms explaining development of the body’s left-right pattern.
- Earth
Danger in the Air
To minimize the threat of volcanic ash plumes to aircraft, scientists are improving methods of satellite detection and developing ground-based gas and ash-plume sensors to monitor volcanic activity.
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Little by Little
As food allergies proliferate, new strategies may help patients ingest their way to tolerance.
- Psychology
Morality Play
Universal concerns, not cultural values, may shape kids’ developing notions of right and wrong.
- Space
The Status Quark
Murray Gell-Mann reflects on matter’s building blocks and scientists’ resistance to new ideas.
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Disaster Goes Global
The eruption in 1600 of a seemingly quiet volcano in Peru changed global climate and triggered famine as far away as Russia
- Earth
Shaky Forecasts
Despite past failures, geophysicists think earthquake prediction might still be possible.
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What do you see?
Emotion may help the visual system jump the gun to predict what the brain will see.
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Pearls Unstrung
For a while, the Great Lakes weren’t connected by rivers and Niagara Falls was just a trickle.
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Smart from the start
Animal embryos get some respect for their survival skills.
- Planetary Science
Stars go kaboom, spilling cosmic secrets
Astronomers hope type 1a supernovas will help in quest to explain dark energy.
