The Calculating Beauty of Butterflies

11.11.2009 How butterflies' colorful wing patterns help them hide, lie, and impress the ladies.

by Eliza Strickland

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How to Make Your Friends Fat

10.29.2009 Staying slim is hard enough without conflicting advice. But don’t worry—science is on the case.

by Andrew Moseman

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Treating Disease With Nature’s Deadliest Toxins

10.22.2009 Drug companies and scientists are turning nature’s weapons into life-saving treatments.

by Jeremy Jacquot

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The NASA School of Art

10.16.2009 For 50 years, artists have had up-close, insider access to the space program. Here are the results.

by Eliza Strickland

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The Tiny German Village That Went Off the Grid

10.14.2009 A small town in Saxony has figured out how to run entirely on biomass—and create an energy surplus.

by Jonathan Scheff

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Brain-Saving, Mind-Blowing, Hi-Tech Medical Imaging

10.07.2009 The names look like alphabet soup—CT, MRI, DTI—but the images look like science melding into art.

by Megan Talkington

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Humans vs Animals: Our Fiercest Battles With Invasive Species

09.24.2009 From Burmese pythons to Galapagos goats, these animals are threatening a hostile takeover—unless we can stop them.

by Eliza Strickland

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Intelligent Design's 8 Biggest Fails

09.17.2009 The latest incarnation of creationism keeps trying—and failing—to take down Darwin.

by Andrew Moseman

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Slicing Open the Moody Sun

09.15.2009 Our star may seem like a model of constancy, but its surface is violently active, rocked by explosions and sun quakes.

The Bizarre and Brilliant World of Knitted Science

09.03.2009 From crocheted axons to knitted frog spleens, these handicrafts are a perfect blend of scholarship and art.

by Eliza Strickland

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