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The Human Cause of Animal Extinction
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What Did Early Americans Eat?
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PopSci's Guide to Summer Sci-Tech Movies 2009
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What Killed the Mammoths? Alien Nanodiamonds May Hold the Answer
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Human CO2 Emissions Could Avert the Next Ice Age, Study Says
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Is Global Warming Creating Penguin Winners And Losers?
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In middle school classrooms, the gist of the Ice Age is often explained as, "It got really cold and all the animals became extinct.” Recently, however, scientists have been…
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Doug Bamforth had taken calls like this one before. He studies early American plains dwellers, and his employer, the University of Colorado at Boulder, regularly sends him…
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Summer is coming, and that means robots, teleportation, antimatter bombs, dinosaurs, an elite high-tech fighting force, fictional metals with unearthly properties ... we love…
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Do nanodiamonds prove an asteroid impact killed off North America's massive mammals 13,000 years ago? It depends on which scientist you ask. A pair of studies published in…
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Earth could be entering a new Ice Age within the next millennium, but it might not, the deep freeze averted by warming from increased carbon dioxide emissions. Humans could…
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Planetary temperatures warmed up naturally thousands of years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age. Some Antarctic penguin populations flourished under the changes. 11,000…
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