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US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has warned that Yemen poses a global threat and has pledged American support in the Yemeni government’s fight against al-Qaeda.
Solar physicists investigating the mysteries of the solar corona have unearthed further clues by observing the sun’s outer atmosphere during eclipses over the last five years.
NASA’s new planet-hunting telescope has found two mystery objects that are “too hot to be plants and too small to be stars” – neither of which fit any definition of known astro objects.
A “cocktail” of different nanometer-sized particles which can be used to target and kill cancerous tumours have been developed by researchers in California and Massachusetts.
For years, adolescents have yawned their way through an ever-growing crop of programs designed to prevent them from engaging in “bad” or dangerous behavior. From DARE to Driver’s Ed to […]
If sports clichés have taught us anything, it’s that any good sports team requires certain players that provide key elements to the overall collective. The debonair leader, the pugnacious underdog, […]
A conversation with the bestselling author and leading expert on business and business sociology.
Writing in the New York Times, Bono makes his case for anti-piracy legislation. For the first time in the Financial Times’ history, online and print subscribers now contribute more revenue […]
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Though modern science may present us with the unflattering image of human life as a "bottomless terror," New Age attempts to disguise the truth and embellish this portrait are what […]
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The illusion that time moves and is distinct from space is one of our deepest misconceptions about the natural world.
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Do some of the essential findings of modern science rule out the possibility of free will? Is there a separation between mental and physical entities? Does it matter? The philosopher […]
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Throughout much of the 20th century, quantum mechanics seemed to kill the idea that human beings could develop an "intelligible, mechanical model of the world." But today, the search for […]
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What is quantum mechanics? A philosopher of science explains how it emerged as the necessary response to classical physics.
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What will it take to test one of the most ambitious scientific theories of our time? At this point, even the grandest effort to establish its truth will be far […]
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The philosopher of physics explains the "unsettling" manner in which movement, at its most essential level, breaks down cognitive categories and exhausts the capacities of human logic.
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The fundamental contradictions of physics are present in even the most quotidian of objects. As the philosopher of science explains, some of quantum mechanics’ greatest mysteries are embodied in a […]
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A conversation with the philosopher of science at Columbia University.
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What can a philosophy of science really accomplish? As the head of Columbia’s Philosophy of Physics program explains, the field is at its healthiest when philosophy and science are indistinguishable […]
Amid fears of further terrorist attacks the Yemeni government has ordered an “unprecedented” number of troops into the region controlled by Al Qaeda.
Dubai is set to open the world’s tallest building today, although many of the offices are unfinished, as the emirate tries to re-establish hope amid the financial crisis.