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Features and Background
Prolonged heating of the atmosphere can shut down plate tectonics and cause a planet's crust to become locked in place ... [more]
Why not nuke invasive marine species with a blast of microwaves ... [more]
Dark energy could be a cosmic mirage ... [more]
How a once-wet landscape became one of the world's great deserts ... [more]
Not even quantum cryptography is 100-percent secure ... [more]
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, alkaline hydrolysis to alkaline hydrolysis ... [more]
Check out Venus ... [more]
Now we're trying to map the diseasome, the collection of all diseases and the genes associated with them, to get a better idea of how they work and how they can be stopped ... [more]
Yay, here's a good scientific excuse to sleep in on the weekend ... [more]
If it's so great to be smart, why have most animals remained dumb? ... [more]
Climate change modellers have not been able to narrow the total bands of uncertainties since the first IPCC report 1990, and it's not getting any easier ... [more]
Insulin pills could cut the need for needles ... [more]
Tropical insects, rather than polar bears, could be among the first species to become extinct as a result of global warming ... [more]
Psychogeography maps the river of extroversion that flows from greater Chicago to southern Florida, and the jagged peaks of neuroticism in Boston and New York ... [more]
Robo-critturs to the rescue of researchers ... [more]
Neanderthals have been pruned from the tree of man ... [more]
Laser-based fusion gets renewed attention ... [more]
Mangrove losses contributed to Burma's devastating cyclone losses ... [more]
Beauty and the beaker ... [more]
Our suspicions prove correct -- fat never really goes away ... [more]
What happens when national security and environmental protection clash? ... [more]
Cellphones may soon be required in hospital wards ... [more]
We're still filling in pieces to the human genome ... [more]
The Earth is long overdue for a pole reversal ... [more]
It's the meat, not the food miles, that matters ... [more]
10 genius inventions we're still waiting for ... [more]
Lovelorn spiders put on a light show in UVB ... [more]
Baby birds babble before bursting into song ... [more]
Mammalian teeth reveal an evolutionary tool kit for their formation ... [more]
Maybe it was fire and brimstone that killed off the dinosaurs ... [more]
The Maker Faire provides a whole new take on tabletop tinkering ... [more]
How come Antarctic penguins still have high levels of DDT? ... [more]
What if we could create better dirt? ... [more]
Fossil remains found in pyramid building materials indicate it's solid rock,not ancient concrete ... [more]
Children who attend day care or playgroups have a 30 percent lower risk of developing leukaemia, and kids with dogs get fewer allergies ... [more]
An oceanic odyssey for Argo floats brings in golden data ... [more]
Young galaxies are a star-packed puzzle ... [more]
Human errors are often put down to a momentary loss of concentration, but that's not the full story ... [more]
If peak oil scares you, what about peak water? ... [more]
An all-female species of fish has survived for up to 100,000 years ... [more]
When galaxies go wild ... [more]
Incans took care when giving people a hole in their head ... [more]
Trying to artificially cool off the planet could have perilous side effects ... [more]
The early human population was tiny and Homo sapiens may have come close to extinction ... [more]
Would-be mothers who skip breakfast are more likely to have girls than boys ... [more]
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Books and Media
Science fiction films can occasionally get the science right ... [more]
Dig around a bit and you can find the roots of a very British obsession ... [more]
Take a look at a family photo album ... [more]
Human-robotic..er..intimacy overestimates the potential of machines, and underrates the human experience ... [more]
Dead trees are still being used to cover the final frontier ... [more]
Let's not be too overly concerned about providing science facts to children, instead put into their hands books that feed imagination and fantasy ... [more]
Will the virtual office be any more successful than the paperless office? ... [more]
Television's portrayal of psychological counselors as either buffoons or unethical clods makes people less willing to seek professional mental health services ... [more]
Vertical farms could give cities a whole new look to agriculture ... [more]
The great tragedy of population control was to think that one could know other people's interests better than they knew it themselves ... [more]
Building a virtual world with Lego?? ... [more]
If antiquities form part of our common heritage, is it right to treat them as embodiments of some particular modern nationality? ... [more]
Whether eco-warrior or mis-guided loony, Timothy Treadwell's fatal dance with bears has a certain grisly fascination ... [more]
The time for books that explain what global warming is and why it matters has come and gone; now we need books that tell us what we can do about it ... [more]
Museums can be as much about doing science as viewing science ... [more]
Picture this: explaining science through drawings ... [more]
The Scientific Revolution took root in the good soil of centuries of experimentation, much of it undertaken by alchemists ... [more]
The Doomsday Men shows how humankind’s most terrible yet ingenious inventions were inspired by a desperate dream ... [more]
It's a pity that the excellent book Suckers: How Alternative Medicine Makes Fools Of Us All won’t be read by the people who would most benefit from it ... [more]
Just what your kid needs -- a book to help them deal with parental tummy tucks, breast enhancement procedures and nose jobs ... [more]
The world's richest trove of information on Darwin's evolution teachings is now available to the world for free ... [more]
The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments finds beauty throughout science even among dead frogs and drooling dogs ... [more]
If Guitar Hero is a tad too up-beat for you, how about conducting your own virtual orchestra? ... [more]
Whose idea was it that the mind could be compared to machinery? ... [more]
Charting the contributions of women to science, antagonisms between femininity and science, and the social and cultural antecedents to science's masculine colouring ... [more]
The Intelligent Design film Expelled is a movie not quite harmless enough to be ignored ... [more]
A clump of ancient folios, crushed, torn, punctured by worm holes, charred at its edges, and covered with mould and water stains reveals ancient mathematical wisdom ... [more]
A new play on Alan Turing's life suggests the chaos he found in mathematics reflected his own complexities ... [more]
Michio Kaku considers the difficulty of instilling common sense into robots ... [more]
Our greed, and our wilful blindness, are ruining the world in faraway places ... [more]
Trying to use brain activity to explain how you respond to poetry is just perverse ... [more]
Proust and the Squid reveals the magic and mystery of reading and its pathologies [more] ... [more]
When Charles Babbage invented a massive calculating machine in 1849, he probably didn't count on it taking 150 years to get the thing built ... [more]
An engineer takes on the art experts ... [more]
Bonk is a fun and enlightening go at a subject that could stand a great deal more productive investigation, in labs and in bedrooms ... [more]
Are professional bloggers working in the equivalent of a digital sweatshop? ... [more]
By the time Richard E. Byrd died, the era of the great explorers of the unknown was long over ... [more]
As virtual risks eclipse real harm, the erosion of both parental authority and childhood continues apace ... [more]
The artwork of patches provides an insight into the psychology of the secret world of the hi-tech military programme ... [more]
Westerners have spent so much time thinking about and tinkering with food that knowing how to enjoy it in a normal way is no longer clear ... [more]
Traumatic brain injury leads to a variety of nightmares, not all of them internal ... [more]
A knock-off collection of poorly constructed essays about cool aspects of physics should not lead people to blame their lack of comprehension on their own inadequacies ... [more]
Take a (non-animated) look at the work of a technical animator ... [more]
As video games have become more complex, Orson Scott Card’s writing has become less so ... [more]
What does it take to be Machiavellian? ... [more]
How differently the history of science might have developed had Leonardo da Vinci's ideas and attitudes been more widely known in the 16th century ... [more]
Even Dr Doolittle would have been startled by some of these beasties ... [more]
Whether you believed Mesmerism was a demoniacal mummery or the most extraordinary event in the history of human science, there was certainly no ignoring its impact ... [more]
Earth Under Fire records how global warming is changing the world ... [more]
Which industry hooks customers on addictive and dangerous products that they didn’t need and makes oodles of cash while doing so? ... [more]
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Analysis and Opinion
There's more to the platypus than just its genome ... [more]
Scientists look to inject a little evidence-based decision-making into public policy ... [more]
An open mind is normally a prerequisite for scientists, but the overtly false and regressive concepts of homeopathy and similarly absurd alternative therapies deserve a closed mind. ... [more]
So when the bird flu pandemic strikes, who do we decide not to treat? ... [more]
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The simple communication of key scientific information to the public needs to be improved if sustainable development is to be a realistic goal ... [more]
Criticising sexual practices such as multiple partners in Africa has prevented us finding an effective strategy to fight HIV ... [more]
How can you be an egalitarian in an age of genetic differences? ... [more]
We could try saving species by eating them ... [more]
More to a missing finger's regrowth than meets the eye ... [more]
China and India are looking abroad as it becomes more difficult for them to be self-sufficient, and that's leading to disastrous consequences elsewhere ... [more]
Experimental results are beginning to shed light on the psychological foundations of our moral beliefs ... [more]
In this nascent age of neurolaw, neuromarketing and neuroethics, it becomes necessary to disentangle the science from the scientism ... [more]
Is posting raw results online, for all to see, a great tool or a great risk? ... [more]
Experts criticise pseudo-scientific complementary medicine degrees as bogus ... [more]
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The American Left, like the American Right, must understand science as a human endeavor with ethical purposes and practical limits ... [more]
When what the patient wants isn't best ... [more]
In identifying the next generation of super athletes, we could be on the verge of one of the great all-time robberies of the human spirit ... [more]
We all have a responsibility to be environmental stewards, but that stewardship requires that science, not political agendas, drive our public policy ... [more]
If you can grow a hunk of flesh for transplant, you can grow it for food, and there's money to be made in that ... [more]
Probably the quickest way to really avert climate change issues is to have a profit-driven, healthy business ecosystem that drives a lot of investments ... [more]
Living in an urban environment can take its toll, not just on residents' physical health and safety, but on their mental health as well ... [more]
The Drake Equation was overly optismitic about the chances of intelligent life elsewhere, but Stephen Hawking remains optimistic about unintelligent life's prospects ... [more]
Do food miles really matter? ... [more]
Those claiming there is a physician work-force crisis have the wrong diagnosis and the wrong prescription ... [more]
The Institute of Experimental Pathology and Therapy is macabre enough, even without the rumours of its old Stalinist attempt to breed a human-ape hybrid ... [more]
Firms making claims about nanotechnology need to watch out ... [more]
The case of a revived brain-dead accident victim raises some disturbing issues ... [more]
If the worm didn't turn, much of the Earth would be uninhabitable ... [more]
Are human brains unique? ... [more]
Politicians should stop interfering in research just because there is a difference of opinion on the ethics or morality of the work ... [more]
Music and mathematics have much in common, but seldom has music so explicitly captured the spirit of scientific achievement as in Purcell's composition for St Cecilia's Day ... [more]
Additives have always been a problem, reflecting the bigger issue of cruddy lifestyles ... [more]
Game theory can help explain the shortage of eligible men ... [more]
Are Pluto's promoters flogging a dead planet? ... [more]
When we harm animals, we degrade ourselves ... [more]
With the death of Arthur C. Clarke, science and rational thought have lost one of their leading promoters ... [more]
Hundreds of choice-rationalization experiments since 1956 are flawed. as Monty Hall could demonstrate ... [more]
Cosmology makes sense, Jim, just not as we know it. ... [more]
There's a dark side to Moore's Law ... [more]
Who ever thought we'd be talking about rickets in 2008? ... [more]
Commercial big game hunting operations these days are like running a zoo where visitors can shoot the animals ... [more]
Science in the UK is going the same way as football ... [more]
Why should we pay special attention to the neuroscience of sex differences? ... [more]
Agent Orange has a past that lives on ... [more]
Perhaps Leonhard Euler's unassuming nature is one reason that the non-mathematical public does not better know his name, despite benefiting from his discoveries ... [more]
How effective is disaster relief? ... [more]
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