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What Can Obama Do About Climate Change?
The President faces a divided Congress, but has some powerful tools to limit carbon emissions.
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The Scientific Case for Outlawing Guns
A new study suggests that U.S. laws should go further to limit gun ownership and improve enforcement.
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Another Slow Month for Volt Sales
But the car is still selling, despite its high price tag and the political backlash against the electric vehicle.
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Could New Oil Production Cause Oil Prices—and Energy Innovation—to Collapse?
A Harvard researcher says unparalleled investment in oil exploration is creating a boom in supply, and that could hurt the development of oil alternatives.
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How Today's Supreme Court Decision Will Help Unleash American Innovation
Upholding Obamacare means more for the growing ranks of independent innovators than it does for any political party.
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New Quantum Theory Separates Gravitational and Inertial Mass
The equivalence principle is one of the corner stones of general relativity. Now physicists have used quantum mechanics to show how it fails.
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Why Our Universe Must Have Been Born Inside a Black Hole
A small change to the theory of gravity implies that our universe inherited its arrow of time from the black hole in which it was born.
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Quantum Entanglement Holds DNA Together, Say Physicists
A new theoretical model suggests that quantum entanglement helps prevent the molecules of life from breaking apart.
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The Brain Is Not Computable
A leading neuroscientist says Kurzweil’s Singularity isn’t going to happen. Instead, humans will assimilate machines.
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Apple -- A Tragic Love Story
Apple users are fervent in their love for Steve Jobs’ devices. I’m happy they have technology that works for them – but they’re misguided.
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