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  1. Astronomy

    Magnetars: A missing link

    A rare group of ultradense stars may be magnetars, objects with the strongest magnetic fields known in the universe.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    RNA interferes with cancer-cell growth

    To curb the growth of cancer cells, scientists are silencing genes by introducing small strands of RNA.

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    Perhaps much of the controversy about evolutionary psychology devolves from forgetting some basic biological definitions. The gene is the unit of inheritance, which has a complex and imprecise relationship with the mature, viable organism that has inherited it. The unit of evolution is the individual organism. Therefore, the arguments about what is more important in […]

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  4. Evolutionary Upstarts

    Theories of the evolution of the human mind are evolving, with some researchers now presenting alternatives to the dominant notion that genetic competition for survival during the Stone Age yielded brains stocked with a bevy of instincts for specific types of thinking.