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It's not rocket science: we need a better way to get to space

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imageUnmanned rocket explodes moments after launch.NASA/Joel Kowsky, CC BY-NC-ND

Human beings will always be explorers. We’ve pretty well surveyed our planet, our tiny blue dot, for answers and only found more questions. Why are we here? How did we get here? What does it mean?

imageWhat happens when vast numbers of us can leave our tiny blue dot behind?N...

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Will the Arctic shift from a carbon sink to a carbon source?

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imageThe warming global climate is causing fundamental changes to the carbon cycle in northern parts of the world. peupleloup/flickr, CC BY-SA

Studies show that the warming of the climate system is altering the movement and storage of carbon in the far north of the Earth. And these changes carry global implications. Among the many questions that...

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'Powerpoint was not his thing': a poem on teaching and technology

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imageThe Parana River in moonlight. Gisela Giardino, CC BY-SA

I am a scholar and teacher of Spanish and Portuguese. I am also a poet.

The several books of poetry I have published in English, Spanish and Guarani (an indigenous South American language and one of the official languages of Paraguay), plus numerous readings of my work, both in Paraguay and at...

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On the 120th anniversary of the X-ray, a look at how it changed our view of the world

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imageWilhelm Conrad Roentgen looking into an X-ray screen placed in front of a man's body and seeing the ribs and the bones of the arm.Wellcome Library, London, CC BY

Sunday, November 8 marks the 120th anniversary of one of the greatest moments in the history of science: an obscure German physics professor’s discovery of the X-ray. His name was...

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Ben Carson: token candidate

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imageCarson smiles at the CNBC GOP debate. Rick Wilking/REUTERS

Ben Carson has now overtaken Donald Trump in the national polls as the GOP front-runner.

As a black man, I’m not at all sure how I should feel about this.

On the one hand, he represents a party that has dedicated itself to opposing President Obama at every turn, mostly because the pres...

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How we got to now: why the US and Europe went different ways on GMOs

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imagePart of the ongoing debate: some papaya growers in Hawaii have planted a strain that has been genetically modified to resist a virus.remembertobreathe/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

There is a myth that circulates on both sides of the Atlantic: Americans accepted genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in their food supply without question, while the more...

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Here are some more reasons why liberal arts matter

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imageWhat constitutes liberal arts?University of Central Arkansas, CC BY-NC-ND

Lately, in the heated call for greater STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) education at every level, the traditional liberal arts have been needlessly, indeed recklessly, portrayed as the villain. And STEM fields have been (falsely) portrayed as the very opposite of...

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Labs make new, dangerous synthetic cannabinoid drugs faster than we can ban them

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imagePackets of synthetic cannabinoids illegally sold in New York City.Sebastien Malo/Reuters

XLR-11, PB-22, AB-FUBINACA, MAB-CHMINACA, 5F-AMB. These are the cryptic and sometimes unpronounceable names of the most dangerous drugs you’ve never heard of. They are responsible for kidney injury, psychosis, seizures, coma and death.

For instance,...

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How campaign finance disenfranchises America's silent majority of socialists

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imageSocialists: please raise your hand.Reuters

It took the excitement generated by the political campaign of a self-described socialist, Bernie Sanders, to put into stark relief the extent to which the United States political system fails to reflect and respond to the aspirations of most Americans.

That’s because decades of income stagnation have...

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