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Whether this week’s test is successful or not, the GMD system is still far from being able to provide reliable protection from a real-world missile threat.

Using brain waves researchers were able to make almost perfect replicas of human faces shown to monkeys – raising prospect of thoughts being accessible to exploration

The research predicts that a nuclear war fought between emerging nuclear weapon states—with less than 1 percent of the explosive power contained in the global nuclear arsenals—can produce catastrophic long-term damage to global environment and weather. A war fought with 100 atomic bombs can result in the coldest average annual surface temperatures experienced in the last 1,000 years, and this prolonged cold (and drought) would last for several years.

Answering three questions can help reveal how the “inheritance of acquired characteristic” fits into modern evolutionary theory.

In 1925 a Tennessee teacher of biology named Thomas Scopes was tried for teaching the theory of evolution. An expert witness at the trial relates how evolution lost in court but won in the eyes of the nation.

Why most of the tobacco epidemic remains in our future.

Gut microbes have also been shown to influence behavior, anxiety, depression, hypertension and a variety of other conditions.

Marin County’s “Game of Floods” teaches citizens how to make tough decisions for the future.

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