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Digital Forensics: How Experts Uncover Doctored Images
Modern software has made manipulation of photographs easier to carry out and harder to uncover than ever before, but the technology also enables new methods of detecting doctored images
New Breast Cancer Treatments Help Sufferers Gain Ground
The newest targeted therapies are helping doctors to tailor increasingly effective treatments to individual patients
The Neurobiology of Trust
Our inclination to trust a stranger stems in large part from exposure to a small molecule known for an entirely different task: inducing labor
The Cosmic Origins of Time's Arrow
One of the most basic facts of life is that the future looks different from the past. But on a grand cosmological scale, they may look the same
What Is a Species?
To this day, scientists struggle with that question. A better definition can influence which animals make the endangered list
The Ethics of Climate Change: Pay Now or Pay More Later?
Weighing our own prosperity against the chances that climate change will diminish the well-being of our grandchildren calls on economists to make hard ethical judgments
The Tunguska Mystery
Finding a piece of the elusive cosmic body that devastated a Siberian forest a century ago could help save the earth in the centuries to come