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- Health & Medicine
Going Under
While every anesthetic drug has its own effect, scientists know little about how the various versions work on the brain to transport patients from normal waking awareness to dreamless nothingness.
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Yawn
Latest research awakens debate over why people can’t keep their mouths closed.
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Atomic Anatomy
A century ago, Ernest Rutherford inaugurated the nuclear age.
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Moved by Light
Lasers push everyday objects into the quantum world.
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Crushing Cancer’s Defenses
Vaccine approval offers hope while other armies muster.
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Cosmic Questions additional references
Books: Brian Green. The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos. Knopf 2011. Read the review. Marcia Bartusiak. The Day We Found the Universe. Pantheon 2009. Read the review. Richard Panek. The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Energy, Dark Matter and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt […]
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Mission: reveal the secrets of the universe
The Objective For millennia, people have turned to the heavens in search of clues to nature’s mysteries. Truth seekers from ages past to the present day have found that the Earth is not the center of the universe, that countless galaxies dot the abyss of space, that an unknown form of matter and dark forces […]
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Tools for the mission
Hunting data A number of instruments now operating or proposed can troll the skies or otherwise help to answer some of the most puzzling questions about the universe. Planck A European Space Agency observatory launched in 2009, Planck is recording a more detailed picture of the cosmic microwave background, the relic radiation left over from […]
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Hanging in the balance
What is the fate of the universe?
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Out of the fabric
Are space and time fundamental?
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Strung together
Is there a theory of everything?
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In the dark
What is the universe made of?
