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  1. Health & Medicine

    Laptops and infertility: It matters how you sit

    Men who keep their legs together while using the computers generate more sperm-endangering scrotal heat than those who splay them, a study finds.

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  2. Space

    Milky Way’s black hole may blow bubbles

    Astronomers have discovered two giant blobs of gamma ray–emitting gas above and below the galaxy’s center.

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  3. Animals

    Acidification may halve coral class of 2050

    Already shown to be a threat to established reefs, experiments show that changing ocean chemistry also threatens the establishment and survival of larvae.

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  4. Earth

    Mining the maritime past for clues to climate’s future

    Researchers collect data through a mashup of 19th century ship records and 21st century crowdsourcing.

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  5. Sources of Einstein’s comments

    Leopold Infeld, Albert Einstein: His work and its influence on our world. Charles Scribner’s Sons,1950, p. 110 Max Born, The Born-Einstein Letters. Macmillan, 1971, pp. 168-69, 192. Albert Einstein, “Physics and Reality,” in Ideas and Opinions, Dell Publishing, 1973, pp. 307-308, 310-311. Albert Einstein, “The Fundaments of Theoretical Physics,” in Ideas and Opinions, Dell Publishing, […]

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  6. Earth

    Hurricane forecasts can be made years in advance

    Climate modelers say they can push Atlantic predictions beyond a single season.

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  7. Life

    The sandman gene

    Researchers find another genetic variant linked to sleep duration.

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  8. Past SN Quantum coverage

    Science News has been covering quantum entanglement since the 1920s. Read past stories.

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  9. 75 years of entanglement

    Though it has been confirmed numerous times since 1935, entanglement is as spooky as ever.

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  10. Quantum weirdness

    Here are some key concepts in quantum mechanics experiments — and how those concepts play out in the real world.

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  11. Quantum Physics

    Like fate of cat, quantum debate is still unresolved

    Entanglement is now one of the hottest research fields in physics. It is pursued not only for insights into the nature of reality, but also for developing new technologies.

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  12. Quantum Physics

    Everyday Entanglement

    Physicists are taking quantum weirdness out of the lab.

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