Do Parasites Rule the World?
New evidence indicates our idea of how nature really works could be wrong
by Carl Zimmer
Antigravity in Pisa
Engineers have been tinkering with this lovable leaning bell tower for hundreds of years. Now it is so close to actually falling over that they had to try something radical
Family Matters
The new buzz in psychology is that peers are more important in shaping a child's personality than parents are. But a 13-year study in Dominica, of all places, says home life is ground zero for mental health
Heresy
Rupert Sheldrake earned the righteous scorn of his fellow biologists for suggesting that pets communicate telepathically with their masters by way of invisible morphic fields. But some physicists think he may be onto something
The Panther Mountain Crater
The more time you spend with Yngvar Isachsen, the moe you wonder when the next killer meteorite will head our way