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M. I. Walker Photo Researchers, Inc.Scientific American Magazine 11/17/09For Sale: Human Eggs Become a Research Commodity
A decision to pay for eggs for stem cell studies sparks debate
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Scientific American Magazine 11/17/09
Putting Madness in Its Place: Can the Environment Explain Schizophrenia's Hereditary Patterns?
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Sewage Industry Fights Phosphorus Pollution
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Scientific American Magazine 11/6/09
Beyond North and South: Evidence for Magnetic Monopoles
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Scientific American Magazine 10/29/09
Burying Climate Change: Carbon Gets Stuffed Underground
Efforts begin to sequester carbon dioxide
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Scientific American Magazine 11/3/09
How Noise Can Help Quantum Entanglement
What spoils quantum entanglement can also restore it
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Scientific American Magazine 10/28/09
Novel Analysis Confirms Climate "Hockey Stick" Graph
A new analysis creates a better look at rising temperatures
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Scientific American Magazine 10/16/09
How to Get More Bicyclists on the Road
To boost urban bicycling, figure out what women want
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Scientific American Magazine 10/15/09
Climate Change May Mean Slower Winds
The wind power industry requires stiff gusts. Global warming may not deliver
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Scientific American Magazine 10/9/09
Pandemic Payoff from 1918: A Weaker H1N1 Flu Today
How the legacy of the vicious 1918 outbreak led to today's comparatively tame swine flu
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Scientific American Magazine 10/9/09
What Is Killing South African Crocs?
Mass deaths of South Africa's Nile crocodiles puzzle biologists
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Scientific American Magazine 10/8/09
The First Synthetic Organelle
Artificial Golgi apparatus uses voltage to shuttle molecules among nine electrodes, where they are modified by enzymes
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Scientific American Magazine 10/1/09
What (Maybe) Didn't Kill the Dinosaurs: Comets
A new model for comet production revises the theory of their origins
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Scientific American Magazine 9/24/09
LSD Returns--For Psychotherapeutics
LSD makes a comeback as a possible clinical treatment
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Scientific American Magazine 9/22/09
Positions of Genes Inside the Cell Nucleus Exert Biological Effects
Researchers are learning how the architecture of the nucleus affects gene expression
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Scientific American Magazine 9/16/09
Gene therapy: An Interview with an Unfortunate Pioneer
Lessons learned by James M. Wilson, the scientist behind the first gene therapy death
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Scientific American Magazine 9/15/09
More Animals Seem to Have Some Ability to Count
Counting may be innate in many species
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Scientific American Magazine 9/8/09
Airlines and Recycling: The Not-So-Green Skies
New calls for the U.S. airline industry to take recycling seriously
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Scientific American Magazine 9/1/09
Quantum Entanglement, Photosynthesis and Better Solar Cells
Quantum details of plants' food-making ability could improve photovoltaic technology
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Scientific American Magazine 8/27/09
Conflicted Conservation: When Restoration Efforts Are Pitted against Human Rights
Saving Earth might mean trampling indigenous societies
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