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  What's On Tap For the Next Ten Years of Astronomy? Find Exo-Earths and Figure Out Dark Energy

  Survey of scientists compiles astronomical wishlist for the next decade

  ... evolved, according to a sweeping survey released today. The much-anticipated Astro2010 ... , astronomers' top priorities are settling questions about the nature of dark ...

  By Rebecca Boyle
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  Everything Americans know about science in seven graphs

  See how the country stacked up in a recent National Science Foundation quiz.

  ... similar phenomenon, but substituting a question asking about elephant evolution rather ... members think they're safe. Other surveys suggest the public isn't well-informed ...

  By Sara Chodosh
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  Your Sewer on Drugs

  Sewage is more than just filth. It's evidence of our worst habits, everything from caffeine to cocaine, all ingested and flushed down the toilet. Now scientists are using wastewater to drug-test entire cities, and the results are sobering

  ... no question that America has a serious drug habit. SAMHSA's nationwide survey ... what Rieckermann finds is another question. Contributing editor Eric Hagerman is ...
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  Q&A: The Surprising Phenomenon of Exercise-Induced Orgasms

  A first-person coregasm testimonial

  ... study by pioneering sexologist Alfred Kinsey found that 5 percent of ...

  By Jennifer Abbasi
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  FYI Gallery: Your Burning Science Questions, Answered

  By PopSci Staff
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  Which Is Worse: The Study About Women Voting With Their Hormones, Or The Trolly Story About It On CNN?

  "There's almost no way to stop [the study] from being spun into the 'war against women' story," coauthor Vladas Griskevicius says. Is he right, or was the study the problem?

  ... for experimental research to the survey data, making the fact that ... editor of Psychological Science, directed questions to a spokesperson for a ...

  By Colin Lecher
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  Scientist in a Strange Land

  Last December, Felisa Wolfe-Simon announced the discovery of a microbe that could change the way we understand life in the universe. Soon she found herself plunged into a maelstrom of bitter backlash and intemperate criticism. A dispatch from the frontiers of the new peer review

  ... within days, researchers began to question Wolfe-Simon's methodology and conclusions. Many ... scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park who has ...
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  Bill Nye Fights Back

  How a mild-mannered children's celebrity plans to save science in America—or go down swinging.

  ... Cooperation and Development. The same survey, conducted every three years, found ... about platypuses. It wasn't a question, actually. She just loves platypuses. ...

  By Ryan Bradley
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  When Scientific Facts Get Divided Down Party Lines

  New poll shows Tea Partiers in particular are anti-science.

  ... control or abortion. That's the question of whether human activity is ... Republicans answered "yes" to that question. Indeed, the Tea Party seems ...

  By Francie Diep
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  Would a Psychopath Cheat a Psychopath Test?

  ... against those people, some surveys include questions that no one would reasonably ... "strongly agree" to all those questions (my vocal critics will say ...

  By Rebecca Watson
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  Sleep-Deprived Men Are Really Bad At Judging Who Wants To Sleep With Them

  Missing out on sleep can cause men to incorrectly gauge if women want to get it on.

  ... night of sleep deprivation. (Sample question: "When a woman goes out ... ?") When the group answered the survey questions while well-rested, both the men ...

  By Colin Lecher
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  Human spit is actually a great cleaning solution (and other award-winning scientific finds)

  The annual Ig Nobel awards are a treasure.

  ... ancestors were occasional cannibals. The question was why. Maybe human meat ... Some Spanish researchers decided to survey drivers to see why they ...

  By Sara Chodosh
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  My Little Brother on Drugs

  Last July, 9-year-old Alex Everett received his first shot of synthetic human growth hormone--an injection he will get every night for eight years. Alex is not sick--he is short. Should we be treating stature as a medical condition?

  ... and ovarian cysts. Yet a survey taken last year reported that ... and pauses to consider the question. "Given the uncertainties, probably not. ...
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  The History of Popular Science

  The History of Popular Science

  ... readers contact the magazine with questions about subscriptions, they can also ... surveying 1,000 reachers each month. These readers were asked specific questions ...
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  PopSci's 6th Annual Brilliant Ten

  We visit operating rooms, observatories, and islands full of slightly-less-than-rational monkeys to find the young geniuses who are shaping the future of science

  ... opening up ever more perplexing questions. And because of that, it ... Schnitzer didn't always aspire to survey uncharted biological territory; he started ...
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  The Boy Who Played With Fusion

  Taylor Wilson always dreamed of creating a star. Now he's become one

  ... to let Taylor assemble a "survey of everyday radioactive materials" for ... with a few difficult technical questions. After checking with Kenneth, Willis ...
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  The most important science policy issue in every state

  A state-by-state breakdown of policies that could change your community.

  ... Justice Network and other critics question whether biomass should qualify as ... decade, according to U.S. Geological Survey data. The uptick coincides with ...

  By April Reese
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  The shakiest earthquake myths debunked

  Recent tremors in California have brought up some common misconceptions.

  ... or injuries, the U.S. Geological Survey says economic losses to the ... The earthquakes have also raised questions among SoCal residents, some wondering ...

  By Ula Chrobak
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  Love Of Spicy Food Is Built Into Your Personality

  Love of spicy food isn't just desensitization, or cultural upbringing--it also has ties to who you are.

  ... that avoided gender- and age-biased questions, as well as dated references ... Later they took an online survey that included personality measures and ...

  By Jennifer Abbasi
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  Ask Us Anything: How Common Is Scientific Fraud?

  Short answer: At least one in 50 scientists is doing something fishy

  ... they had. Fanelli then compared survey answers between decades to spot ... ,” Fanelli says. Have a question? Tweet your science questions and quandaries to ...

  By Daniel Engber
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  The Science of Forensics

  Surprising facts about the real-life science of crime scene investigations

  ... face of reasonable doubt. Without question, the CSI and Law and ... National Academy of Sciences to survey the landscape of forensic science. ...
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  Gen-Y Likes iPods More Than Beer: World Ending?

  ... suspicion that few of those surveyed could even name another MP3 ... But now for the real question: What the heck are these ...
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  Five Years of the Worst Jobs in Science

  More than 50 of the most dangerous, disgusting, humiliating and just plain bad professions

  Think your job's bad? Try dragging a bedspread around tick-ridden thickets, pausing regularly in the 100-degree heat not to squeegee the sweat from your brow but to tweeze dozens of the tiny pests into a collection jar. ...
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  Cheer Up!

  We're no happier, but we are more equally unhappy

  ... the question participants in the University of Chicago's General Social Survey have ... and Justin Wolfers took this survey's data from 1972 through 2006 ...

  By Rachel Durfee