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• East Africa's Small Carnivores Flourished While Large Ones Died Out

• Planets That Spin around 2 Suns [Video]

• Do You Prefer to Read on Paper or Screens? [Poll]

• Following the Data Trail from Humble Human Beginnings to World Domination

• Readers Respond to “Do CT Scans Cause Cancer?”

• High-Energy Neutrinos Herald a New Dawn of Particle Astronomy

• Star's Vanishing Act Solves an Astronomical Mystery

• Fast-Mutating Viruses Point Back to Criminal Spreaders of Disease

• Early Humans—Not Climate Change—Decimated Africa’s Large Carnivores

• The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: Why Paper Still Beats Screens

• Better Security Measures Are Needed Before Drones Roam the U.S. Airspace

• How to Think about Privacy

• Book Review: Out on a Limb

• Advances

  Arctic Pole of Inaccessibility Is on the Move

• What's in Your Bacterial Aura?

• Ultraviolet Illumination Warns Sea Turtles away from Fishing Nets

• The BMI Is Outdated, but It Still Works

• Could a Simple Ankle Sensor Help with Parkinson’s Symptoms?

• Independent Labs Seek Financial Shelter as Federal Funds Dry Up

• Scientists Showcase the Wonders of the World at Burning Man Festival

• New Energy Secretary Faces Uphill Battle in Fracking Push

• Tablet Computers Help Children in Remote Villages Learn to Read

• Researchers Seek Scapegoat for Lyme Disease’s Startling Prevalence

• Tiny Gears Power Leaping Liftoffs

• Forum

  The Future of Manufacturing Rests with Hollywood

• The Science of Health

  How the Brain Gets Addicted to Gambling

• The Science Agenda

  Why We Must Keep Track of Errors in Electronic Medical Records

• TechnoFiles

  Hands-Free Texting Is No Safer to Use While Driving

• Recommended

  Book Review: Voyager

• Book Review: Star-Craving Mad

• Book Review: Our Once and Future Planet

• Skeptic

  A Tale of Tax Returns and Tax Scams

• Anti Gravity

  Seeing Saturn for the First Time Really Opens One's Eyes

• 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago

  50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: The Greatest Inventions, up to 1913

• Graphic Science

  Caffeine High: More and More Products Contain Large Doses