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- Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn Talks Climate and Carbon
- Looking Back, and Up, at a Seattle Icon
- With Climate Change, No Happy Clams
- Denis Hayes on Being Green
- Human Genes Not Patentable, Supreme Court Says
- How to Survive a Mass Extinction
- Whole Genome Scans Could Reveal Too Much
- Promising Results in Early Trial of Novel MS Treatment
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The Poles, They Are A Changin'
A Florida airport recently had to close its main runway to repaint directional signs, due to the changing location of magnetic north. We'll talk about the planet's magnetic field.
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Carl Zimmer Explores The Weird Lives Of Viruses
In A Planet of Viruses, Zimmer writes of viruses that cause cancer and others that cure disease.
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Is A Moon Necessary For A Planet To Support Life?
Researchers are studying our moon's effects on the Earth to guide their search for habitable worlds elsewhere.
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The Many Lifestyles of Muck-Dwelling Microbes
From barely-alive to bits of a biocomputer, a look at two different microbes and their unusual stories.
Jul. 01, 2011
An Ocean Full Of ‘Sex, Drugs And Sea Slime’
A new book looks at the mucus-filled world of some of the oceans’ oddest inhabitants.
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