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Sick Chic: UK Hospital Gowns Get Designer Makeover

You would think this bit of news would be coming out of Paris, but Britain ...

The Loom

Happy 100, Jacques Monod

The great French biologist Jacques Monod would have turned 100 today. I am ...

Bad Astronomy

More good science in HuffPo

Steve Newton of the wonderful National Center for Science Education has ...

Discoblog

Hot Tech to Aid the Hunt for a Parking Space

How much time and energy is wasted as drivers circle around blocks and ...

Bad Astronomy

Utah to be destroyed by a comet! Or not!

Utah is only one state over, so when I see a website that tells me a ...

Articles

The Clever Tricks That Let Caterpillars Reach Butterflyhood

These wingless larvae outwit predators through ingenious disguises, alarming appendages, and choreographed chaos.

Destination Science: Hunting Dinosaurs With Jack Horner

Exploring with Horner is part rugged outdoor workout, part evolutionary adventure, which helps explain why some 40 people trek to this remote part of Montana each summer to join him on his fossil hunts.

Can an Injection Break a Cocaine Addiction?

The drug "vaccination" takes away the high, so users have little reason to use.

The Dawn of Civilization: Writing, Urban Life, and Warfare

An extraordinary ancient Syrian settlement shines a light on one of the most important moments in human history.

Departments

Top 100 Stories of 2009

#1: Vaccine Phobia Becomes a Public-Health Threat

Autism research is progressing quickly, but without a solid diagnosis, some still blame vaccines.

20 Things You Didn't Know About...

Digestion

#15: In which painful condition does your body literally start eating yourself from within?

The Brain

What Is the Speed of Thought?

Faster than a bird and slower than sound. But that may be besides the point: Efficiency and timing seem to be more important anyway.

Visual Science

The Ultimate X-Ray Generator

To get really high-energy X-rays, you need some really powerful magnets.

Future Tech

The 3-D Simulation that Lets Your Surgeon Practice...on You

A new technology lets doctors test out procedures on a simulation of the patient's anatomy.

Vital Signs

An Uninvited Guest

The young woman carried a baby that wasn't her own—and wasn't even a human.

What Is This?

Abstract Expressionism?

Hint: These plates cover a creature that's flat and round—hence its name.

Discover Interview

Miles of Wire, Reams of Print-Outs, and a Giant Discovery

Jocelyn Bell Burnell worked through old-school equipment and old-school sexism to find the first pulsar—the beginning of an extraordinary life in science.

Big Picture

5 Reasons Science [Hearts] Google

The company that tamed the Web is now helping researchers see the world with fresh eyes.

5 Questions

Five Questions: Turning Microbes Into Micro Refineries

Synthetic biologist Reshma Shetty predicts that we will eventually engineer organisms to grow everything that we manufacture today.

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