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NASA’s revolutionary planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has been honored with the 2009 Best of What’s New Grand Award from Popular Science Magazine and a 2009 Breakthrough Award from Popular ...

As I reflect on a year of Quanta biology stories to decide which of the many excellent ones to recommend, I am relying on memory. But what exactly does that mean? “Memory” is a slippery word. It means ...

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THERE are very few articles on purely scientific subjects in the magazines received by us this month. Apparently the magazine-reading public thinks a scientific pabulum unsuitable for Christmas ...