This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Karen Hopkin, this will just take a minute. Shakespeare once said: A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. And that is true today as it was 400 years ago. What's different now, though, is th

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By Kurt Achin Seoul 13 December 2007 North and South Korean generals scuffled briefly on the second day of high-level military talks at the two countries' border. Tension at the talks is fueled by a decades-old dispute over an international demarcati

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