How do animals do business
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Animal behavioral economics is a fledging field that lends support to the new theories by showing that those basic human economic tendencies and preoccupations, such as reciprocity, the division of rewards, and cooperation, are not limited to human species only. They probably evolved in other animals for the same reasons they evolved in humans, to help individuals take optimal advantage of one another without undermining the shared interests that support life group.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2005
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The midlife crisis of the cosmos
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Astronomers are aiming to understand how the oldest and most distant objects evolved into present-key galaxies with the advent of new space observations and new instruments on ground-based telescopes. The major step in this direction is to determine the cosmic stratigraphy, which objects are in front and which are more distant among the thousands of galaxies in a typical deep-field image.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2005
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Low temperature super conductivity is warming up
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Magnesium diboride (MgB2) defies the once conventional wisdom about what makes a good conductor. It becomes super conducting near the relatively warm temperature of 40 Kelvins, that promises a variety of applications.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2005
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