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Cellphonometry: Can Kids Really Learn Math From Smartphones? Fast Company Schools are partnering with mobile-phone companies. Are smartphone learning initiatives more than a corporate gimmick? |
| New Tech Could Make Nuclear the Best Weapon Against Climate Change Discover Two new designs aim to make nuclear reactors safer and vastly more efficient. |
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In Tonsils, a Problem the Size of a Pea New York Times More sufferers are now open about their tonsil stones, tiny, smelly agglomerations of bacteria and debris that form in the back of their mouths. |
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Microsoft’s Class Action Fast Company Across the country, talent-hungry corporations are trying to save our struggling public schools. Are they creating smarter kids–or a fleet of drones? |
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The Greenest Green Fuel
Popular Science Looking for a clean fuel that grows anywhere and needs only sunlight and water? Here’s one start-up’s plan for converting oil from algae–yes, algae |
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Scents and Sensibility Psychology Today “Sexual chemistry” is more than just a way of talking about heated attraction. Subtle chemical keys actually help determine who we fall for. |
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The Worms Crawl In New York Times David Pritchard–Scientist at Work: A rogue University of Nottingham researcher investigates whether parasites can be used to cure allergies. |
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The sun blotted out from the sky Salon.com Global warming demands more than do-gooder actions. It demands “geoengineering”–like blocking the sun’s rays with stratospheric dirt. |
