Departments
How the connections between pigs, bats, and people could threaten your health.
by Mary C. Pearl
We grumble about prying eyes, yet we love to upload our identities onto the Web.
by Douglas Rushkoff
New X-ray data unveils the dynamics of galaxy cluster Abell 3266.
by Jessica Ruvinsky
Boys with older brothers are more likely to be gay. But is it nurture or nature?
by Stephen Ornes
String theory comes under attack, a geneticist muses on God, and the demise of high-tech trash. Plus: Buckminster Fuller's portable, collapsible house.
Newsflash: we're all going to die. But here are 20 things you didn't know about kicking the bucket.
by LeeAundra Temescu
Readers debate the motives of terrorists, vegetarianism, and the hottest physicist on the planet.
How Silicon Valley joined the superstitious fringe as the enemy of open inquiry.
by Jaron Lanier
If you lack a sense of personal trajectory, astronomers can help.
by Bob Berman
Why is one of the thinking community's heavy hitters dabbling in doomsday prophecy?
by Bruno Maddox
The retiring president of Caltech delivers some straight talk on AIDS research, celebrity science, and his role in one of the most talked-about fraud scandals of the past 25 years.
by Susan Kruglinski
The dog provides a clue to a family's puzzling seizures.
by Pamela Grim
