The DEA's Decision to Keep Pot Restrictions Perpetuates Hypocrisy
Keeping existing federal rules in place is an exercise in hypocrisy
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Readers Respond to the June 2016 Issue
Letters to the editor from the June 2016 issue of Scientific American
State of the World's Science 2016
Governmental manipulation of news; scientists who won't speak about their work; and research the public never sees
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New Robot Helps Babies with Cerebral Palsy Learn to Crawl
The infants crawl sooner and farther than they would on their own
The U.S. Is About to Get Much Better Weather Satellites
They will provide four times better image resolution and five times faster coverage
Building a See-Through Brain
A new experimental approach at the interface of chemistry and biology lets scientists peer into the deepest reaches of the body's master controller
The Origin of Humans Is Surprisingly Complicated
Many kinds of archaic humans walked the planet at the same time. How did Homo sapiens come to be the last species standing?
Enceladus's Hydrothermal Vents Could Revolutionize the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Evidence mounts that Saturn's icy moon harbors active hydrothermal vents, making it one of the hottest places to look for life beyond Earth
