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This article originally appeared in Knowable Magazine. The experiment was a striking attempt to investigate weight control. For six weeks, a group of mice gorged on lard-enriched mouse chow, then
After years of painstaking development, too many sleepless nights, and the seemingly never-ending slog that is the careful scrutinization of data, cosmologists this spring finally made their announcement. Dark energy—the
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For years, Oscar has greeted dawn with the rhythmic swing of his machete as he chops sugar cane in fields near his home in El Salvador. On a typical morning,
