
Web Science: Studying the Internet to Protect Our Future
Studying the Web will reveal better ways to exploit information, prevent identity theft, revolutionize industry, and manage our ever-growing online lives

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Web Science: Studying the Internet to Protect Our Future
Studying the Web will reveal better ways to exploit information, prevent identity theft, revolutionize industry, and manage our ever-growing online lives

Big Bang or Big Bounce?: New Theory on the Universe's Birth
Our universe may have started not with a big bang but with a big bounce—an implosion that triggered an explosion, all driven by exotic quantum-gravitational effects

Bar Code of Life: DNA Tags Help Classify Animals
Inspired by commercial bar codes, DNA tags could provide a quick, inexpensive way to identify species

Searching for Intelligence in Our Genes
IQ is easy to measure and reflects something real. But scientists hunting among our genes for the factors that shape intelligence are discovering they are more elusive than expected

Open-Source Thinking Revolutionizes Prosthetic Limbs
A community of engineers, designers and innovators is collaborating online to make better prosthetic hands and arms for amputees. One of the lead engineers lost his own arm in Iraq

Neural Light Show: Scientists Use Genetics to Map and Control Brain Functions
A clever combination of optics and genetics is allowing neuroscientists to identify and control brain circuits with unprecedented precision