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David Brin's Ph.D in Physics from the University of California at San Diego (the lab of nobelist Hannes Alfven) followed a masters in optics and an undergraduate degree in astrophysics from Caltech. Every science show that depicts a comet now portrays the model developed in Brin's PhD res...
1 Poultry office block in London’s financial district is a chance to experience firsthand the Tale of Two Cities that’s upending the commercial real-estate market. From the vantage point of the Coq d’Argent you can gaze out at a forest of new skyscrapers that developers hope will bring...
Eventually, scientists released birds in Arizona, California, and Baja California, and some of these birds have reared young of their own in the wild.Genetic interventionIn small populations, inbreeding can cause genetic variability to be lost quite quickly. A simple example is provided by the Y...
For thousands of years, North American tribes carefully burned forests to manage the land. The future may lie in a return to that past.