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The 2% Difference

by Robert Sapolsky

Now that scientists have decoded the chimpanzee genome, we know that 98 percent of our DNA is the same. So how can we be so different?

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How to Win the World Memory Championship

by Joshua Foer

Some contestants can recall the order of a deck of cards after looking at it for 60 seconds. Learn their tricks.

Who's Your Daddy?

by Susan Kruglinski

Don't count on DNA testing to tell you.

by Yasmine Mohseni

The exhibit is riveting, but critics wonder where these cadavers came from.

Schweitzer's Dangerous Discovery

by Barry Yeoman

When this shy paleontologist found soft, fresh-looking tissue inside a T. rex femur, she erased a line between past and present. Then all hell broke loose.

Inside the Restoration of the Amirya Madrassa

by Andrew Lawler

The grandeur beneath the rubble was obvious—'impeccable, perfect materials and perfect proportions.'

Anything Into Oil

by Brad Lemley

Turkey guts, junked car parts, and even raw sewage go in one end of this plant, and black gold comes out the other end.

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Interview: Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel

by Susan Kruglinski

Does psychotherapy work? We'd be a lot more certain if we slapped a little science on it.

DEPARTMENTS

Blinded By Science

Blinded by Science

by Bruno Maddox

In praise of the bolder world of the first Internet.

Whatever Happened To...

Whatever Happened to Antigravity Research?

by Alex Stone

by Jessica Ruvinsky

Two placebos face off.

20 Things You Didn't Know About...

20 Things You Didn't Know About... Space Disasters

by Corey S. Powell, Jason Stahl

Vital Signs: The Boy Who Stopped Talking

by Mark Cohen

A toddler's behavior gives away his disease.

How Octopi Morph Color

by Jaron Lanier

What cephalopods can teach us about language

by Robert Kunzig

Extinct toads, mutant mosquitoes, melting Arctic ice: Is our planet doomed?

DATA

by Bob Berman

The cosmos brims with color, but our eyes aren't engineered to see it

Brave New World

by Steven Johnson

Online fantasy worlds put our democratic ideals to the test

Second Act For Stem Cells

by Kathy A. Svitil

American Archeology

by Anne Casselman

World's Biggest Holes

by Elise Kleeman

Drilling deep into the crust, a volcano, a fault, and the ocean floor uncovers Earth's true nature.

The Future of Time

by Alan Burdick

Can we increase productivity by revving up the neural pacemakers in the brain?

Nemo Goes To College

by Jessica Ruvinsky

Our Rotting Infrastructure

by Amos Kenigsberg

Stardust Memories

by Susan Kruglinski

A pinch of comet dust conjures the drama of the solar system's early days.

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