His brilliant method of pollination is now used by all vanilla growers.
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The first observation of humpback whale copulation reveals a surprise.
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Asteroids, boxing, and hallucinations, in the editor’s note from Print Issue 54.
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Asteroid defense gets serious.
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In the new book Purpose, a Yale psychiatrist argues Darwinian forces are divinely guided.
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A controversial theory can explain phenomena attributed to the mystery planet.
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A simple game shows how fear of regret shapes decisions.
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Scientists have long puzzled over the behavior of mixed particles in rivers and landslides. New clues could be groundbreaking.
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This is a story about institutional transition, and most importantly, about the institutional transition to a modern global society. Modernity, for Barry Buzan in Making Global Society: A Study of Humankind Across Three Eras, is not the period that was established sometime between the early modern and nineteenth century period in Europe, or as a ‘quick jump early in the nineteenth’.
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Join economist and former Greek Finance Minister, Yanis Varoufakis for a special talk at the University of Sydney. Yanis will discuss his new book, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, and its implications for Australia as the world enters a ‘New Cold War’ of geopolitical tensions between the United States and China.
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