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Sci Am: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Carl Sagan and Frank Drake make a case for exploring space to discover extraterrestrial intelligence.
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Scientific American: What's a Dvd and How Does It Work?
This "Ask the Expert" article answers the question "What's a DVD and how does it work?" clearly and thoroughly. Compares the DVD to other data storage units, and to itself! Did you know there are more types of DVDs other than what you...
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Scientific American: A Field Guide to Bats : In Depth Reports
Uncover the evolutionary past of the mysterious bats. Find out about their amazing ability to use sonar, the threat of rabies they carry, and conservation efforts to save the species.
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Newfound Source of Mysterious Cosmic Bursts Poses Deeper Enigmas
Despite a breakthrough discovery by radio astronomers, the decade-long puzzle of elusive "fast radio bursts" is far from being solved. Scientific American investigates the story of the new cosmic breakthrough.
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Scientific American: Dogs Process Language Like Us, but What Do They Understand?
Can dogs actually understand what people say to them? Is it the tone or the words they process?
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Scientific American: Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here
Once one of the driest countries on Earth now makes more freshwater than it needs. How can other countries learn what this nation has mastered in an effort to turn droughts around?
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Forget Survival of the Fittest: It Is Kindness That Counts
A psychologist probes how altruism, Darwinism, and neurobiology mean that we can succeed by not being cutthroat. Is it possible?
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The Strange Case of the Minnesota Iceman
The modern-day corpse of a human-like hominid, preserved in a block of ice, encountered by researchers in the 1960s. Surely the zoological discovery of the century!
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Scientific American: Why China Is Dominating the Solar Industry
China has made enormous strides in the national costs of solar energy because of their own solar-electric industry.