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First Ebola Case Diagnosed in the U.S.
Dallas hospital is treating traveler from Liberia
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China launches media campaign to back genetically modified crops
China's government is battling a wave of negative publicity over a technology it hopes will play a major role in boosting its food security
The Sciences
Yeast Coaxed to Make Morphine
Genetically manipulated yeast can produce morphine that could help get around the problems with poppy crops, which include climate, disease and war. Karen Hopkin reports
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Technology
“Glass Brain” Offers Tours of the Space between Your Ears
3-D visualizations combine EEG and MRI data to illustrate how brain signals propagate and could be used to study neural disorders
Health
No Airlifts for Sickened African Ebola Docs
West African physicians confront the same dangers as foreign health workers, but unlike their counterparts they do not receive emergency evacuations if they fall victim to the Ebola virus ...
A New Idea for Treating Alzheimer's
If it's good for the heart, it could also be good for the neurons, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes, cells that make up the main items on the brain's parts list.
Technology
Teen Wins Big for His Sock Invention
Recipient of the Science in Action Award, a 15-year-old develops a sensor to monitor Alzheimer’s patients
The Sciences
Transparent Rats Give Scientists Clear View to Innards
New technique turns rodent bodies transparent
Health
Weaponized Ebola: Is It Really a Bioterror Threat?
What would it take to hijack the virus in west Africa and turn it into a bioterror agent elsewhere?
Researchers Produce Propane Using E. Coli Bacteria
A team of scientists has transformed E.coli bacteria into a propane factory. In their Nature magazine article, researchers from the University of Turku (Finland) and Imperial College (United Kingdom) described a new metabolic pathway for producing propane from Escherichia coli (E.coli)...
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U.S. Prescription-Drug Safety Program Expands
The FDA will continue to monitor safety from health records
U.S. Department of Defense Health Official Speaks Out on Ebola and Other Threats
Earlier this month, I posted a Q&A on the Ebola outbreak with a Stevens colleague, medical anthropologist Theresa MacPhail. MacPhail also put me in touch with someone who could provide more insight into the outbreak, Dr...
Girls With a Plan to Ease World Hunger Win Top Science Award
A chance observation about warts on a pea plant led a trio of teenagers on a three-year mission to solve the world food crisis. Their perseverance earned them top honors at the annual Google Science Fair in Mountain View, California...
Ig Nobel Prizes Make You Laugh, Then Think
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—What happens in the brains of people who see Jesus in a piece of toast? What are the physics of slipping on a banana peel?
How We Made Contact Lenses Comfortable and Safe
He would dab on a bit of cocaine to anesthetize his eyes first. Then, to prevent air getting in, Müller would insert the lenses with his eyes under water.
7 Amazing Google Science Fair Projects
Tonight, Google will announce the winners of its fourth annual Google Science Fair, which Scientific American co-sponsors. Watch the awards ceremony here live.
The Sciences
A Surprising Time-of-Death Tool
Microscopic soil organisms could reveal the story of a corpse
Environment
Hacked Photosynthesis Could Boost Crop Yields
An algal enzyme is found to speed up the rate at which plants make food
Giant African Rats Detect Land Mines and TB for a Living
So yesterday, I adopted an unborn land-mine-detecting African giant pouched rat (Cricetomys gambianus) from Tanzania. Did I spend 20 minutes figuring out what I was going to call it, as one of my many privileges as an adoptive parent?...
Health
White House Unveils Strategy to Combat Antibiotic Resistance
A new science advisory panel assessment sparks executive actions to tamp down the threat of a future without lifesaving drugs
