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Features and Background
Don't complain about the fast corkscrew landing when coming into Baghdad International Arport -- there's a good reason for it ... [more]
The world's largest artificial reef hits rock bottom ... [more]
Despite disappearing into the dust , the Face on Mars still attracts attention ... [more]
Smell is the most mysterious of the five senses ... [more]
How has weather altered the course of history? ... [more]
The heady logic of conquest that created the mosquito-vulnerable masses also doomed the subsequent campaign to eradicate malaria ND ... [more]
At least one greenhouse gas is showing a drop in levels ... [more]
Sitting in the flight director's chair means wondering if a mistake you make today will end the US space programme ... [more]
Zero-g gets more affordable and more attainable -- undated ... [more]
New research on bonobo challenges their peace-loving reputation ... [more]
Astronomers are not just looking at the universe -- they're listening hard as well ... [more]
Did the first paying guests aboard the international space station get their $20 million worth? ... [more]
The world's densest bones excite the orthopaedic world - undated ... [more]
What went on when the Sun had two north poles? ... [more]
Bonobos have an impressive vocabulary, especially when it comes to snacks ... [more]
Is it a nova? Is it a stellar collision? Is it a planet swallower? ... [more]
Eat less, live longer ... [more]
The challenges of seabird conservation are frequently different from those surrounding conservation of other birds ... [more]
Chemotherapy does addle the brain ... [more]
With the equivalent power of an electric can opener, engineers try to do more than scratch the Martian surface ... [more]
TB is not a disease of the past, it's baaack and it's drug-resistant ... [more]
Bulb eater crushes mercury concerns ... [more]
Why have a plain square tent when you could have a wind-shaped pavilion? ... [more]
Insight, creativity, tenacity and foolhardiness combine in Popular Science's Brilliant 10 ... [more]
It took more than a big meteorite to wipe out the dinosaurs, so maybe there isn't a simple answer to mass extinctions after all ... [more]
Finding Earth-like planets is just a matter of time ... [more]
The great white shark has a surprisingly complex social life and hunting strategies ... [more]
You can really use your brain when you play Space Invaders ... [more]
DNA provides the clue when tracing illegal smuggling of rare birds ... [more]
An enthusiast was so convinced that a farmer's plot hid a medieval city, he bought it ... [more]
Cocaine Energy Drink and Pimpjuice -- what the latest teen is downing ... [more]
DNA family tree for ancient social amoebas reveal evolutionary clues ... [more]
How stars move in a crowd (we're talking about real stars here, not your two-bit B-grade celebs) ... [more]
Floating nuclear power plants set to putter off to the Russian Arctic ... [more]
Tagging a monarch may be tricky but provides interesting information ... [more]
Martian oceans did not teem with life ... [more]
Does playing dead really work to deter a predator? ... [more]
Researchers looking for better ways to make and store hydrogen have accidentally discovered an entirely new kind of ice ... [more]
Orb weavers are the ultimate in producing really nice threads ... [more]
Did ancient gorillas get the chance to eat bananas? ... [more]
One in 50 heart attack victims are mistakenly sent home by emergency-room doctors ... [more]
There has been a surfeit of lampreys for the past 300 million years or so ... [more]
Bacteria living deep underground have no need for any Sun-based energy source ... [more]
Global warming could, quite literally, bring about a sea change ... [more]
Vampires shown to be mathematically impossible ... [more]
China starts to investigate the safety of its traditional medicine industry ... [more]
The pollution you're exposed to, and even your behaviour, can lead to effects that are inherited by your children, your grandchildren and beyond ... [more]
What are the chances of aliens sniffing us out? ... [more]
Even when we're not aware of them, erotic images can still grab our attention ... [more]
Nanotechnology saves Renaissance masterpieces, Mayan wall-paintings and old shipwrecks ... [more]
Why would being magnetic help some bacteria? ... [more]
Eat your vegies -- they really are brain food ... [more]
There are emotionally intuitive men and mathematically gifted women, regardless of what the stereotypes say ... [more]
We need to ensure that we can still see the little stars twinkling ... [more]
Finding evidence for early domestication of the horse is surprisingly tricky, but there are ways it can be done ... [more]
Let's hitch-hike to Mars ... [more]
Tracking the genetic roots of autism makes more sense than blaming TV viewing ... [more]
Super-mountain range provided the nutrients for early life ... [more]
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Books and Media
See the latest in action and reaction from the Eepybird boys, courtesy of Coke and Mentos (needs Flash) ... [more]
Bio-inspiration sees biological forms translated into functional physical artifice, but the connections are weaker than they first appear ... [more]
Of course no one...believes in the Einstein effect, it being contrary to philosophy, judgment and horse sense ... [more]
Michael Shermer tells us Why Darwin Matters ... [more]
From the big to the small in space books ... [more]
Eau de scientist anyone? ... [more]
School mathematics is akin to learning how to use a hammer without ever learning to build a chair ... [more]
A photo essay provides an unusual, if harrowing, glimpse into both a climatic and a geographic unknown ... [more]
You wouldn't invite Ardipithecus ramidus to dinner, but he's worth reading about ... [more]
You don't have to go to San Francisco to find out all about earthquakes ... [more]
Discussing sex in space can really bring on a headache ... [more]
Design Squad actually encourages teens to take an interest in science and technology ... [more]
Ten years after the publication of The End of Science, John Horgan says the limits of scientific inquiry are more visible than ever ... [more]
The chance to hover over Greenland’s interior offered an unusual, if harrowing, glimpse into both a climatic and a geographic unknown ... [more]
Aerial imagery inspires industry ... [more]
The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness ... [more]
High-tech haunting tricks made easy ... [more]
Flawed solution to famed math problem spurs cyber soap opera ... [more]
Alice Miller says it is time to get rid of the Fourth Commandment but her scientific evidence doesn't stack up ... [more]
Don't settle for those awful ooky green walls in our hospitals when we could do so much better and feel so much better ... [more]
Questions about the evolution of language are intriguing but difficult to answer because researchers cannot rely on any fossil evidence ... [more]
The nanohyperbole meter runs from nanopanic to nanopanacea ... [more]
Rhododendrons are more than just a pretty flower ... [more]
When it comes to running a space programme with lots of different organisations participating, the devil is in the interface ... [more]
Aerial shots of glaciers 70 years apart show major physical and social changes ... [more]
Are virtual laboratories an acceptable substitute for real lab benches, microscopes and experiences? ... [more]
The Enlightenment and modernity did not put an end to the peculiar attraction to the human mind of the super-natural and miraculous and the desire to explain its mystery ... [more]
Putting ourselves at the centre of things is not necessaily a cure for our cosmic loneliness ... [more]
What happens when people think there may be oil under a wildlife refuge ... [more]
The complete works of Charles Darwin are being made available online ... [more]
The genre of climate change fiction is accelerating ... [more]
Scent-tagged photos let you follow your nose through your digital album ... [more]
Sometimes a cave painting of a bison is just a cave painting of a bison ... [more]
Why people cheat, gossip, care, share and follow the Golden Rule ... [more]
According to the pundits, the future of the Internet look like a cross between 1984 and The Matrix ... [more]
Stephen Hawking's new film project is described as Groundhog Day meets Star Trek ... [more]
Technology lends a whole new meaning to sotto voce ... [more]
Take a look at a heady and ambitious attempt to map the physiological basis of what we call love ... [more]
Nowhere in the countless pages of journals devoted to psychological trauma has there been a single piece of research on war journalists, until now ... [more]
We can include children in humanity’s progress off planet by, for starters, getting them to ask questions ... [more]
Strange Blooms tells us how new exotic flora beame de rigeur in an English country garden ... [more]
Richard Dawkins adds more fuel to his fire ... [more]
Botanical Riches is a stylish and big-hearted attempt to tell the story of humankind's interaction with grains, fruits, flowers and trees ... [more]
The dark future in current science fiction drama -- such as that seen in Battlestar Galactica or Firefly -- is hardly the stuff of inspiration ... [more]
There's more to tracks on the sand at the bearch than just a pretty picture ... [more]
Can a highly subjective symptom which may equally present in multiple sclerosis, depression, brain injury, or just about anywhere else tell us anything useful about brain functioning? ... [more]
Poor scientific knowledge boosts the need for museums to act as public educators ... [more]
The effort to prove Einstein’s theory of relativity was far more involved, and far less clear-cut, than most people realize ... [more]
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Analysis and Opinion
It is commonly held that religion makes people more just, compassionate, and moral, but a new study suggests that the data belie that assumption ... [more]
Taking into account the full life cycle, nuclear energy creates far smaller worker safety, public health, and environmental effects than does any form of fossil fuel use ... [more]
So are flushing toilets really a sign that you're environmentally irresponsible, amoral, close-minded? ... [more]
By repatriating disputed antiquities, museums will be able to bring even more of the ancient world to the public - Nov-Dec ... [more]
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Bacteria may not have brains, but they are intelligent, says Lynn Marguilis and we're just one big collection of bacteria ... [more]
Blastomere blasphemy shows how oversimplification in science reporting can widen the divide between scientists and the public ... [more]
Start that low-carbon diet now! ... [more]
Technologies evolve much as species do, and that underappreciated fact is the key to growth ... [more]
Is the 43rd President of the United States really science's worst-ever enemy? ... [more]
What would have happened to the US space programme if Kennedy had lived? ... [more]
Infanticide -- a crime in humans, but simply natural behaviour in chimps? ... [more]
There are three reasons why all-electronic voting machines are a bad idea ... [more]
The new US National Space Policy will push the world closer to a space arms race, or maybe actually help international diplomacy ... [more]
Why encourage your child to follow in your footsteps if your profession is not really all that rewarding? ... [more]
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Rifle-toting tourists hunting exotic animals could actually help protect Africa's vulnerable species ... [more]
What's the biggest problem with the treatments for alcohol dependence available today? ... [more]
There is more concern than ever that doctors are blurring the lines between objective science and financial gain ... [more]
Proto-panics regarding a possible bird flu pandemic shouldn't stop us eating eggs and poultry ... [more]
Five things not to forget when forecasting ... [more]
Who gets to decide what technological innovations will carry the day on the playing field? ... [more]
Carbon rationing is vital if we are to deal with the planet's woes, but can you meet Slate's eco-challenge? ... [more]
Can Moore's Law go on forever? ... [more]
Neanderthals have generally been seen as evolutionary outcasts, but what if we're the odd ones out? ... [more]
There are ways to fly the friendly skies without harming them ... [more]
When ancient remains are found, who should get the say on what is done with them? ... [more]
Wishful thinking about age-old ecological wisdom does nothing to help the fight for sustainability, particularly when teamed with suppression of dissent ... [more]
If we can't inspire the development of space with science, how about with sports? ... [more]
One of the most rational scientific minds of our time was sacrificed to irrational intolerance ... [more]
Blaming television viewing for autism is appealing, but the evidence is not compelling ... [more]
Who decides whether CPR should be attempted on a gravely ill patient? ... [more]
If a cost of something is "incalculable", how can you predict that the price tag will be 20 trillion dollars a year by 2100? ... [more]
Do we own our own bodies? ... [more]
Can men marry if they have ovaries? ... [more]
Paul Davies: No scientific explanation of the universe can be deemed complete unless it accounts for [its] appearance of judicious design ... [more]
Today's tech-savvy young people are the office and boardroom faces of tomorrow ... [more]
Superconductivity -- not dead yet ... [more]
Wigs in spaaaace ... [more]
The proper amount of biomedical research spending is that amount that will enable me and you to live as long we'd like ... [more]
China's wants to integrate into the global economy, but it'll have to take a hard look at how it regulates the life sciences first ... [more]
Food fears provide further impetus for the demise of the family farm ... [more]
Some common ground is found between evolution by creeps and evolution by jerks ... [more]
Selective logging does not necessarily mean that first you select your forest then you log it ... [more]
Environmental groups are setting back the fight against global warming, says a leading green thinker, while a major business leader finds the whole thing daunting ... [more]
Who needs Pop Idol when you can be a real star ... [more]
We sell ourselves short when we posit an irreconcilable opposition between ourselves and wild nature ... [more]
The rubber meets Roe as the contraception debate takes a new twist ... [more]
Innate intelligence has nothing to do with the gender disparities in science and engineering, regardless of what some pundits might aver ... [more]
A small group of Muslim clerics is spreading the myth that the polio vaccine is part of a conspiracy to sterilize Muslims, and so helping to spread a disease many thought was conquered ... [more]
Ten ways people are looking to change the world ... [more]
Rating the most popular myths in science ... [more]
Assertions that the proponents of embryo research have failed to address the moral issues are simply false ... [more]
Neuroscience has uncovered compelling links between biology and moral behavior, so what does this mean for our notions of personal responsibility? ... [more]
It is time that air-conditioning was more publicly recognised as one of those technologies that, while liberating us, increasingly threatens us too ... [more]
The baby business is booming with very little examination of the moral questions this industry raises ... [more]
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