New Tactics in the Fight against Tuberculosis
The pandemic is growing in many places, and strains resistant to all existing drugs are emerging. To fight back, biologists are applying a host of cutting-edge drug development strategies...
Features
The World's Smallest Radio
A single carbon nanotube can function as a radio that detects and plays songs
Advances in Monitoring Nuclear Weapon Testing
Detecting a test of a nuclear weapon has become so effective and reliable that no nation could expect to get away with secretly exploding a device having military significance
How Renewable Energy and Storage Solutions Stack Up
The need to tackle global climate change and energy security makes developing alternatives to fossil fuels crucial
Was Einstein Wrong?: A Quantum Threat to Special Relativity
Entanglement, like many quantum effects, violates some of our deepest intuitions about the world. It may also undermine Einstein's special theory of relativity
How to Save New Brain Cells
Fresh neurons arise in the adult brain every day. New research suggests that the cells ultimately help with learning complex tasks—and the more they are challenged, the more they flourish...
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Tuberculosis, The Unromantic Killer
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Readers Respond on "A Sunshade for Planet Earth"
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Will the Recession Spark a Crime Wave?
Graphene Electronics Inches Closer to Mass Production
Invasive Earthworms Denude Forests in U.S. Great Lakes Region
Within Any Possible Universe, No Intellect Can Ever Know It All
Taming the Madness of Crowds
Infecting Mosquitoes May Keep Them from Infecting Us
Does Daylight Saving Time Conserve Energy?
Updates: Whatever Happened to Drugs from Goats?
More Mysterious Methane
Silkworms: What the Astronauts Eat?
Galactic Chicken and Egg
Data Points: Energizing Earth
Mountain Thin Air
Cometary Wipeout of Mammals
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The Art of the Con--Learning from Bernard Madoff
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Golfer's Ear? Will That Driver Make You Deaf?
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100 Years Ago: Rescue Tugs Bring Safety to the Ocean
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Nuclear Testing Is an Acceptable Risk for Arms Control
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In Brief
News Scan Briefs: Explaining the Aperture Illusion
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Scientific American Reviews: Why You Are Not Your Brain
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Can "Assisted Migration" Save Species from Global Warming?
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The Economic Need for Stable Policies, Not a Stimulus [Extended version]
