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Interview with Steve Hubbell

Binary Rubble

Are icy rocks with moons keys to the mystery of Pluto?

Skepticism toward The Skeptical Environmentalist

Virtual Voyage Through the Body

A clever combination of detailed imaging and graphics software creates virtual endoscopy: a non-invasive peek inside the body

Designing Trees

The same, often controversial gene-tweaking techniques that brought us pest-resistant fruits and vegetables now have a new target: trees

A Way with Words

Do languages help mold the way we think? A controversial idea from the 1930s is getting a second look

Sonic Fusion

Scientists have reported that by bombarding a liquid with sound they were able to produce nuclear fusion in a tabletop apparatus. But their colleagues doubt it

Mental Bonds

A closer look at the once intractable nature of slavery in Gabon in West Africa provides a case study for the global phenomenon of human bondage

Interview with Roderick MacKinnon

Facing Your Genetic Destiny, Part II

Finding treatments that match individual gene profiles is the next frontier in drug research and the objective of a new science called pharmacogenomics. Virtually every major pharmaceutical company is now investing millions in its pursuit...

Facing Your Genetic Destiny

The use of predictive genetic tests is still limited to a handful of relatively rare and highly hereditary diseases, but that's about to change

A Recycled Universe

Crashing branes and cosmic acceleration may power an infinite cycle in which our universe is but a phase

Interview with Ross MacPhee

What killed the mammoths and other behemoths that once roamed the Americas? This mammalogist thinks it may have been hyperlethal disease

Where Biosphere Meets Geosphere

Microbes don't only affect other living things. They break down rock, construct mineral deposits and create by-products ranging from electrical currents to methane gas

Teaching Robot Dogs New Tricks