A Friend to Aliens: Are Invasive Species Really a Big Threat?
Buckthorn, garlic mustard and many other invasive species do not pose as big a threat as some scientists think, says ecologist Mark Davis
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Mind Out of Body: Controlling Machines with Thought
In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, a pioneering neuroscientist argues that brain-wave control of machines will allow the paralyzed to walk, and portends a future of mind melds and thought downloads...
Citizen Satellites: Sending Experiments into Orbit Affordably
Tiny, standardized spacecraft are making orbital experiments affordable to even the smallest research groups
Jefferson's Moose and the Case against American Degeneracy
Thomas Jefferson waged a second revolution, fighting the image created by European naturalists of a degenerate America
How to Fix the Obesity Crisis
Although science has revealed a lot about metabolic processes that influence our weight, the key to success may lie elsewhere
X-Ray Vision: NASA's NuSTAR Telescope
Thanks to amazing nested mirrors, NASA's NuSTAR telescope is set to reveal hidden phenomena in the cosmos
The Inner Life of the Genome
The way our genes are arrayed and move in the 3-D space of the cell nucleus turns out to profoundly influence how they function, in both health and disease
How Language Shapes Thought
The languages we speak affect our perceptions of the world
The Blue Food Revolution: Making Aquaculture a Sustainable Food Source
New fish farms out at sea, and cleaner operations along the shore, could provide the world with a rich supply of much needed protein
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Particles That Flock: Strange Synchronization Behavior at the Large Hadron Collider
You Smell Flowers, I Smell Stale Urine
When Earth Was a Snowball: Global Glaciers May Have Sparked Evolutionary Burst
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