Fetal Armor: How the Placenta Shapes Brain Development
Scientists are finding that the placenta is far more than a passive filter
Features
The Great Prostate Debate: Does Screening Save Lives?
Evidence shows that screening does more harm than good. Now what?
Designers of Exotic Materials Learn New Tricks from Animals
Chemist Joanna Aizenberg mines the deep sea and the forest wetlands for nature's design secrets and uses them to fashion new materials that may change the world
Is Space Digital?
An experiment going up outside of Chicago will attempt to measure the intimate connections among information, matter and spacetime. If it works, it could rewrite the rules for 21st-century physics...
Swept from Africa to the Amazon
What the journey of a handful of dust tells us about our fragile planet
Volunteers Plug Holes in the Climate Record
Oldweather.com is one of a handful of online initiatives that marshals the general public to help scientists with cutting-edge research
How Scientists Are Tackling the Bed Bug Nightmare
Studies of the bed bug's bizarre biology have revealed potential vulnerabilities
Controversy: Can Repeat Concussions Cause Lou Gehrig's Disease?
Football players diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease may suffer from the effect of repeated blows to the head, controversial new research says
The Future of Chocolate
Researchers are racing to fortify the embattled cacao tree and to meet increasing demand for cocoa made from its seeds
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The Impracticality of a Cheeseburger
Social Clicks: Sounds Associated with African Languages Are Common in English
A Long Flight but No Baggage
The Not-So-Hot Hand
A Man-Made Contagion
In Sync, on a Quantum Level
Orange Rinds May Help Rid Cows of E. Coli
It Detects Earthquakes and Lactose Intolerance
Gumming Up Appetite
Inside the Mind of a Video Game Champ
Photo Quiz: Guess the Image
Making Liquids Go Bipolar
Oral Exam
"Mama's Boy" Monkeys Score with the Ladies
Storybook Wishes for Martian Rovers
Should the U.S. Collaborate with China in Space?
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Does NIH Have a Bias against African-Americans?
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Diabetes Mystery: Why Are Type 1 Cases Surging?
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Concussion Is a Serious Problem for Child Athletes
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Lies We Tell Ourselves: How Deception Leads to Self-Deception
- Anti Gravity
Animals Get the Upper Paw, or Hoof, or Claw
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100 Years Ago: Vickers Machine Gun
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U.S. Science Degrees Are Up
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