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Fuzzy Math: Dubious Change

by Alex Stone

Buying a pack of gum can leave you $5 richer.

Mining for Dark Matter

by Guy Gugliotta, Christopher Griffith

Seeking the universe’s missing ingredient inside a Minnesota mountain

Video Games vs. the Aging Brain

by Katherine Ellison

How a mental gym can tone your mind and stave off memory loss.

Suspended Animation

by Alex Stone

Hibernation could be the key to surviving a trip to the ER.

Inside the Lab-Mouse Farm

by Carl Zimmer, Doron Gild

Inbred oddballs help decode everything from cancer to obesity.

One Spectacular Stellar Death

by Alex Stone

The biggest recent supernova revealed how stars live and die.

DEPARTMENTS

Map: Welcome to the Blogosphere

by Stephen Ornes

Charting the network of jocks, gadget hounds, political junkies, and porn aficionados

Whatever Happened To...

Whatever Happened To... Primal Therapy?

by Stephen Ornes

1970s psychotherapy is alive and screaming in Venice, California.

Raw Data: The Ancient Chimp Stone Age

by Josie Glausiusz

Chimps created tools like humans' over 4,000 years ago.

Jaron’s World: Virtual Horizon

by Jaron Lanier

VR in the real world may soon surpass the famous glove from Minority Report.

Vital Signs: Attacked from Within

by Robert A. Norman

A woman battles a disease so diverse that it eludes diagnosis.

Blinded By Science

Blinded by Science: IQ Is Dumb

by Bruno Maddox

Get ready for gentler aptitude ratings like Ideaphoria and Foresight.

20 Things You Didn't Know About...

20 Things You Didn't Know About... Pencils

by Dean Christopher

Erasing with bread crumbs, pencil as murder weapon, and more

Is Morality Innate and Universal?

by Josie Glausiusz, Doron Gild

A hardwired moral code leaves a lot of room for interpretation.

The Dark Side of Reality TV

by Douglas Rushkoff

Who are the real subjects of these twisted psych experiments?

Review: Meet the Ancestors

by Josie Glausiusz

A jazzy new Hall of Human Origins opens at the American Museum of Natural History

What's Wrong With American Medicine?

by Tony Dajer

The New Yorker ignores the elephant in the room: money.

DATA

Seeing Sun Storms in Stereo

by Niels Tadlie

Space weather is finally available in 3-D.

Urban Unplanning

by Anne Casselman

Traffic signs are as unnecessary as they are annoying.

How to Pinpoint a Pinniped

by Richard Hollingham

It's easy—stick a big radio transmitter on their heads.

Sperm Solidarity

by Amos Kenigsberg

In the fight for fertilization, rodent sperm band together

The Ultimate Garbage Disposal

by Tony McNicol

A power station eats up dirty landfill and churns out clean electricity.

Is There a Genetic Basis to Race After All?

by Kathryn Garfield

It may not be a question of which genes, but how they behave.

Human Think, Robot Do

by Alex Stone

Controlling a robot with an electrode-studded swim cap

You Are a Chimera (Thanks to Mom)

by Kathy A. Svitil

Your mother's cells can be a part of you for decades.

Return of Nuclear Winter

by Emily Saarman

Proliferation gives new life to old fear.

Tiny Troublemaker, Giant Genome

by Boonsri Dickinson

A one-celled vaginal parasite sports more genes than its human host.

Eyes May Really Be the Window to the Soul

by Boonsri Dickinson

Squiggles of color could indicate a tender heart

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by Mark Anderson

The future of super-fast computing appears on the horizon.

Air Force Ponders Bat-Planes

by Alex Stone

Nimble wings may inspire aircraft of the future.

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