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The Milky Way is Bigger, Faster, and Heading for Trouble

Have you heard that the Milky Way is bigger than we thought? Fifty percent bigger, according to new measurements

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New Song, Same Mistakes

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Does Rugby Predict Pope’s Doom?

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The Tell-Tale Armor

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Three New Marine Monuments in the Pacific

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Scrubbing with Dinosaurs

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Dinos Alive Tour

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Why Golfers Might Need Earplugs

The golf course would seem to be a quiet and peaceful place, so why did an audiologist recommend that some golfers wear earplugs?

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Could Science Education Be a Victim of the Recession?

Hysterical Men by Mark Micale.

History of the Hysterical Man

Doctors once thought that only women suffered from hysteria, but a medical historian says that men were always just as susceptible

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A Giant Winged Platypus?

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Picture of the Week—Great Barrier Reef

When I visited friends in Australia earlier this year, I made visiting the Great Barrier Reef a priority

Foxes ate so many Aleutian cackling geese that by 1940, the birds were thought to be extinct.

Wild Goose Chase

How one man’s obsession saved an “extinct” species

Mountain operations, like the Hobet 21 mine near Danville, West Virginia, yield one ton of coal for every 16 tons of terrain displaced.

Mining the Mountains

Explosives and machines are destroying Appalachian peaks to obtain coal. In a West Virginia town, residents and the industry fight over a mountain’s fate

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Elevations

Disparate views from on high

Born with a disease that has robbed her eyesight, Alisha Bacoccini (being examined by surgeon Albert Maguire) is undergoing experimental gene therapy at the University of Pennsylvania. If she weren't legally blind, says the 20-year-old massage therapist, she would want to be a forensic scientist.

Gene Therapy in a New Light

A husband-and-wife team’s experimental genetic treatment for blindness is renewing hopes for a controversial field of medicine

Biologist Eric Forsman was delighted that a breeding pair of wild spotted owls he has studied for years did it again (their 3-week-old hatchlings on a hemlock in Oregon this past May).

The Spotted Owl’s New Nemesis

An battle between environmentalists and loggers left much of the owl’s habitat protected. Now the spotted owl faces a new threat

A study shows that cabbage white butterflies with their hindwings removed could fly as far and as high as before.

Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Butterflies, clicking antelopes, creatures of the deep and more

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Enter the Dinosphere

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The Year of Charles Darwin Ultimate Tour (Part 1)

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