NASA is hiring a Planetary Protection Officer to protect Earth from alien harm

Want to save the planet?

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Inside The U.S. Government’s secret 30-year radiation experiment on its citizens.

At least 30 programs, beginning in 1945, saw government scientists knowingly exposing American citizens to life-altering levels of radiation, sometimes by directly injecting plutonium into their bloodstreams.

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This Map Shows all the Disappearing Languages in the World

Amazingly, there are 7,099 languages still spoken in the world today.

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In Breakthrough, Scientists Edit a Dangerous Mutation From Genes in Human Embryos

Researchers have found a way to reliably remove disease-causing mutations from human embryos, an achievement sure to renew concerns over so-called designer babies.

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What did the first ever flower look like?

Flowers have long held the fascination of humans, and European botanists have now determined what the single ancestor of all modern flowers looked like.

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The four ways distrust of science has infected politics

From climate change to vaccination, genetic modification and energy security, anti-science is used as a critical phrase implying a person or group is rejecting science outright. But it's not that simple. All shades of political positions are routinely ambivalent about science. Neither the right or left arms of politics are consistent supporters or attackers of science.

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Capitalism's excesses belong in the dustbin of history. What's next is up to us.

It’s time to dethrone capitalism’s single-minded directive and replace it with a more balanced logic, laying the foundations for a better, more equitable world.

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