Is Global Warming Harmful to Health?
Computer models indicate that many diseases will surge as the earth¿s atmosphere heats up. Signs of the predicted troubles have begun to appear.
Features
How Green are Green Plastics?
Fountains of Youth: Early Days in the Life of a Star
To make a star, gas and dust must fall inward. So why do astronomers see stuff streaming outward?
Form from Fire
Self-propagating heat waves can engender new and improved materials, but only recently have researchers found ways to monitor these ultraquick chemical reactions
The Universe's Unseen Dimensions
The visible universe could lie on a membrane floating within a higher-dimensional space. The extra dimensions would help unify the forces of nature and could contain parallel universes...
Male Sexual Circuitry
Birth of the Modern Diet
Ever wonder why dessert is served after dinner? The origins of modern Western cooking can be traced to ideas about diet and nutrition that arose during the 17th century
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If you can't Stand the Heat...
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Measure for Measure
- 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago
50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: Zeppelin's First Flight and Observing a Firestorm
- Wonders
Laws of Calorie Counting
- In Brief
Data Points: The Need for Zzz's
- Profile
Blue Chip
- Mathematical Recreation
A Fractal Guide to Tic-Tac-Toe
- Amateur Scientist
How to Rear a Plankton Menagerie
- Science and the Citizen
Gene Scenes
Island Survivors
Magnetic Anomalies
Uncontrolled Burn
More Than the Best Medicine
Global Positioning
Cosmic Cartography
Size Doesn't Matter
DNA Junk and Lupus
A Dose of Our Own Medicine
Atomic-Force Geckos
Sea Change for Tides
- By the Numbers
The U.S. Population Race
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Focusing in a Flash
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The Grand Plan
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Different Stripes
No Resistance
