



A train that doesn't even stop in Willoughby; Extinction rock; and more...
By John Pavlus , Christie Nicholson and Christopher Mims | Jul 11, 2008 | 8
Voters who know their place; Chilling evidence of rapid climate meltdown; Humans to galaxy: "We're here!" via golden plaques and snack food; and DNA self-sequencing kit marketers parse "lab test"
By John Pavlus , Christie Nicholson and Christopher Mims | Jul 1, 2008
Like a summer blockbuster, this episode is full of thrills--magnets that turn off a reporter's ability to speak; indestructible unmanned aerial vehicles; and more...
By Christie Nicholson , John Pavlus and Christopher Mims | Jun 19, 2008 | 1
Scientists dissect the world's largest invertebrate; narwhals unseat polar bears as the most endangered mammal in the Arctic; introduced lizards underwent superfast evolution; and a new way to program robots that encourages them to improvise solutions to real-world problems
By John Pavlus , Christie Nicholson and Christopher Mims | May 6, 2008 | 1
Are video games linked to autism? Are we the only intelligent life in the galaxy? Is PETA's X Prize for artificial meat going to work?
By John Pavlus , Christie Nicholson and Christopher Mims | Apr 30, 2008
In this week's episode of Scientific American's weekly news video roundup: bad times might lead to good health, the misuses of the iPod as a unit of storage, decisions happen seven seconds earlier than you think, and hear a Neandertal speak!
By John Pavlus , Christie Nicholson and Christopher Mims | Apr 25, 2008 | 2
A haunting visualization of our CO2 emissions; turning those emissions into plastics; deadly nanotech socks and a war of two press releases.
By John Pavlus , Christie Nicholson and Christopher Mims | Apr 25, 2008
This week's science news video roundup includes rodents joining the club of tool users, Olympians with a gene that lets them beat doping tests, suspended animation via hydrogen sulfide and a network of earthquake-detecting laptops.
By John Pavlus , Christie Nicholson and Christopher Mims | Apr 8, 2008
Space methane suggests the possibility of space cows; space robots are serving their NASA masters (for now); and why is everything in space made of matter?
Mar 25, 2008 | 3
What's in a name (why we aren't changing ours), hobbit or human, the Vatican's seven social sins, and drugs in our water, should we be worried?
Mar 18, 2008 | 1
On the horizon: killer asteroids, killer robots, a new way to kill killer pathogens, and an unkillable home for all the world's seeds
Mar 4, 2008 | 1
The science news roundup that doesn't insult your intelligence or put you to sleep
Feb 26, 2008 | 8
The science news roundup that doesn't insult your intelligence or put you to sleep
Feb 19, 2008
The science news roundup that doesn't insult your intelligence or put you to sleep
Feb 13, 2008
The science news roundup that doesn't insult your intelligence or put you to sleep
Feb 6, 2008
Sciam's new weekly news roundup, The Monitor, covers a week that included government declarations about the safety of cloned meat and innovations in yeast life extension
Jan 24, 2008 | 6
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