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2,166 articles from TIME

• FRIDAY 27. JULY, 2012
• 08:30 Found: Three new planets

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  Not all solar systems are as tidy as ours, but a new discovery means we're not quite so alone anymore.  

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• TUESDAY 24. JULY, 2012
• 08:10 Win-Win: How Farmers Unexpectedly Benefit From the Drought

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  Crop insurance helps ease the pain for the agricultural sector -- but increase it for everyone else  

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• MONDAY 23. JULY, 2012
• 19:45 Appreciation: Sally Ride, First American Woman in Space

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  Here's how Sally Ride knew she was special: The day she was assigned to her first space flight, she was summoned to meet with Chris Kraft. Kraft was the soon-to-retire director of the Manned Spaceflight Center in Houston  

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• 08:15 Artificial jellyfish built

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  A synthetic version of the common critter could be a boon to human health  

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• FRIDAY 20. JULY, 2012
• 08:10 Found: A Baby Galaxy

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  Galaxies are supposed to out clumpy and, well, kind of ugly. But a new find changes all that.  

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• WEDNESDAY 18. JULY, 2012
• 08:40 Running Across a Gooey Pool

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  A familiar party game involving cornstarch, water and a wading pool is explained at last  

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• TUESDAY 17. JULY, 2012
• 10:35 The Power Grid: From Rickety to Resilient

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  Blackouts will become more common unless we build a system that can bend but not break  

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• 09:24 Venter on the meaning of life

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  The man who cracked the human genome and invented his own bacterium, gives an historic talk in an historic place  

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• 09:24 What is Life? Venter Explains

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  The man who sequenced the genome and invented a bacterium tackles the ultimate question  

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• FRIDAY 13. JULY, 2012
• 08:05 Found: Invisible Galaxies

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  They're out there -- perhaps a lot of them -- and now there's a way to find them  

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• THURSDAY 12. JULY, 2012
• 08:05 Q&A with Higgs discoverers

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  Thousands of scientists from dozens of countries helped find the Higgs boson, but these three took the lead  

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• WEDNESDAY 11. JULY, 2012
• 08:10 Mystery of the Galaxy-sized Stardust That Vanished

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  A shrouded star suddenly turns clear. Are baby planets involved?  

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• TUESDAY 10. JULY, 2012
• 12:24 Do You Believe in Global Warming Now?

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  A blistering summer is at last changing some minds -- but the story remains complicated  

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• MONDAY 9. JULY, 2012
• 08:05 A Just-Right Black Hole Fills a Cosmic Void

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  Black holes once came only in tall and venti; not there's a grande in the middle  

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• WEDNESDAY 4. JULY, 2012
• 16:35 Fireworks for the Physicists: A Higgs is Found

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  An elementary particle that is the cornerstone of of physics has at last been confirmed  

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• TUESDAY 3. JULY, 2012
• 09:10 Higgs Boson: Geneva Announcement Coming on 'God Particle'

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  An announcement in Geneva could confirm a century's worth of physics -- or turn it on its head  

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• 09:00 New York City's Bicycle Wars

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  The mayor's bike-share plan should get more riders out there -- but that can spell trouble  

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• MONDAY 2. JULY, 2012
• 08:05 Why Tomatoes Taste Lousy

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  A single gene that codes for color and general loveliness, also codes for blah  

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• FRIDAY 29. JUNE, 2012
• 08:05 Ocean in Space -- on Titan

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  One of the solar system's most complex moons has a warm and watery heart  

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• WEDNESDAY 27. JUNE, 2012
• 11:24 Physics of the Love Parade Stampede

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  A disaster at a German music festival was the result of bad planning, bad luck -- and fluid dynamics  

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• TUESDAY 26. JUNE, 2012
• 13:24 What the Failure of Rio+20 Means For the Climate

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  Expectations were extremely modest for the Rio+20 Earth Summit that ended last week -- and the best thing that might be said about the conference is that it managed to clear that very low bar.  

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• MONDAY 25. JUNE, 2012
• 13:10 US Supreme Court to Announce Healthcare Decision Thursday

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  Health care ruling expected on Thursday  

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• 12:24 Quasars on a diet

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  Some of the universe's most brilliant objects get by on a surprisingly spartan diet  

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• THURSDAY 21. JUNE, 2012
• 14:10 As Rio+20 Unfolds, A U.N. Report Shows How Far We Have to Go to Save the Planet

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  An environmental report card  

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• TUESDAY 19. JUNE, 2012
• 14:00 The Rio+20 Summit: Don't Expect Much

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  Even as the world borns, the leaders of the great nations dither -- and that hurts us all  

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