The Mystery of Autism

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The Troll Hunters

A group of journalists and researchers wade into ugly corners of the Internet to expose racists, creeps, and hypocrites. Have they gone too far?

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Auras: There’s an App for That

A variety of new digital filters will make a photograph look vintage. The inauthenticity of the effect is irrelevant: it’s enough to evoke an audience’s sense of the past.

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Solving the Autism Puzzle

For years scientists searched fruitlessly for the causes of autism by looking for genes shared by families prone to the disorder. Now researchers taking a new approach have begun to unlock its secrets.

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A Coal Plant That Buries Its Greenhouse Gases

The first commercial power plant to use carbon capture and sequestration shows the potential of a crucial technology.

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China’s Growing Bets on GMOs

New technology and large government research initiatives in ­genetically modified crops are giving China a storehouse for a more populous future.

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The Extremes of Inequality

Development is lifting people out of poverty, but there’s still far to go.

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Fun with Food

Playful new cooking based on traditional methods and weird ingredients will supplant the industrial techniques that dominate modernist cuisine.

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Cheap, Scratch-Resistant Displays

Ultrathin sapphire laminates could lead to new screen covers that are harder to break.

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Robots Rising

Do robots kill jobs? Not necessarily.

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