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Space

Finding dangerous asteroids, before they find us

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MoMath: Manhattan’s Museum of Mathematics

Environment

Battling nature in your backyard

Humans

Tragic tears: Why we are the only animals that cry

The forgotten life of Dorothy Wrinch

The butterfly effect 鈥� in giant balloons

Holiday gifts: What to give the scientifically curious

Holiday gifts: Books to give by

Technology

Oppenheimer: the full story of a complex character

Who benefits from big biology projects?

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Environment

Embracing shale gas may help cut emissions

The engineer who defeated the wind

Extinct birds come alive in a cartoonist’s imagination

Humans

Will we ever understand how our brains work?