
The Best Medicine: Cutting Health Costs with Comparative Effectiveness Research
A quiet revolution in comparative effectiveness research just might save us from soaring medical costs

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The Best Medicine: Cutting Health Costs with Comparative Effectiveness Research
A quiet revolution in comparative effectiveness research just might save us from soaring medical costs

Underground Railroad: A Peek inside New York City's Subway Line of the Future

The Limits of Intelligence
The laws of physics may well prevent the human brain from evolving into an ever more powerful thinking machine

Evolution of the Eye
Scientists now have a clear vision of how our notoriously complex eye came to be

The Periodic Table of the Cosmos: 100 Years of the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
A simple diagram, which celebrates its centennial this year, continues to serve as the most essential conceptual tool in stellar astrophysics

Leonard Susskind: The Bad Boy of Physics
Leonard Susskind rebelled as a teen and never stopped. Today he insists that reality may forever be beyond reach of our understanding

Hacking the Lights Out: The Computer Virus Threat to the Electrical Grid
Computer viruses have taken out hardened industrial control systems. The electrical power grid may be next

The Last Great Global Warming
Surprising new evidence suggests the pace of Earth's most abrupt prehistoric warm-up paled in comparison with what we face today. The episode has lessons for our future

Scent of a Human: The Battle against Mosquitoes
Decoding how a mosquito sniffs out human targets could lead to better traps and repellents that cut malaria's spread