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08.31.2009 A second set of jaws, vomiting up your stomach, eating the insides of living animals—the strange things other organisms do to get by without silverware.

by Jeremy Jacquot

10.02.2009 If climate change reaches scientists' more dire predictions, it could change every facet of our society. But some industries will be especially hammered.

by Andrew Moseman

08.21.2009 Nuclear fusion reactors, particle colliders, and other big-science rely on giant magnetic fields. But nature's most powerful magnets blow even our best efforts away.

by Andrew Moseman

08.19.2009 Medical students have always had to dissect corpses. In the late 1800s, it made for unsettling but great pictures.

by Allison Bond

08.12.2009 Gazing up at the night sky is a reward unto itself: the splendor of the Universe awaits! But when you use a telescope and a camera, you can capture that beauty in ways that even our sophisticated eyes cannot detect.

08.12.2009 The recent imaging of two 300-million-year-old proto-spiders was just the tip of the iceberg: Here are 12 new scanning technologies that are bringing amazing 3-D images into Hollywood, medical care—and home PCs.

by Alexander Gelfand

08.07.2009 Your body does some pretty amazing things to keep functioning properly. Here are nine ways you've probably never heard of.

by Allison Bond

07.30.2009 They're organized and ruthless, brilliant engineers and cold killers. They're ants, and this is their world.

07.29.2009 These theories were epically wrong but also creative and interesting.

by Eliza Strickland

07.20.2009 The Apollo program reached the moon 40 years ago today. Here's a look at some of the many technical breakthroughs of that mission.

by Sam Kissinger