Biology
3-D Printing Gets Ahead: How Does a Printer Make a Fossil?
3-D printers can create models and prototypes, replicas of your head, even living tissues—and at Lehman College, they reproduce and reconstruct ancient fossils
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Biology
3-D Printing Gets Ahead: Anthropologists Use Printing Technology to Model Fossils
At Lehman College, 3-D printing creates fossil replicas, extra-large versions, reconstructions and even primate skulls that never entered the fossil record
Evolution
The Prince of Evolution: Peter Kropotkin's Adventures in Science and Politics
In his new book, Lee Alan Dugatkin tells the tale of one of the world's first modern international celebrities, whose writings shared the common thread of a scientific law of mutual aid, which guided the evolution of all life on Earth...
The Sciences
Secret Lives of Plankton Revealed in Microscopic Glory
The diversity of these ocean drifters, crucial to all life on Earth, is revealed in a new book
Environment
CSI: Mother Nature--Forensic Meteorology a New Growth Industry as Weather-Related Damage Intensifies
Called on to reconstruct weather conditions that occurred at a specific time and location in question, the number of cases for storm sleuths to solve is on the rise
Mind & Brain
The Changing Mental Health Aftermath of 9/11--Psychological "First Aid" Gains Favor over Debriefings
Our understanding of how people experience trauma--and how best to help them recover from it--has changed greatly in the past decade
Technology
Direct Response: 5 Pre-9/11 Security Breaches and the Safety Measures That Followed
Long before 2001 authorities were scrambling to respond to deadly attacks of all kinds
Policy
Yes We Scan: Have Post-9/11 Airport Screening Technologies Made Us Safer? [Slide Show]
Airport security breaches on and after 9/11 have led to the continual advancement of technologies such as millimeter wave imaging and backscatter scanners to prevent future tragedies
Mind & Brain
How Young Children Learn about Terrorism and 9/11
What have we learned about the way children understand and process major events--even if they, themselves were not alive to have experienced them?
Mind & Brain
Motion Sickness Treatments Make Waves
NASA and the U.S. Navy are finding better ways to treat motion sickness, which could be good news for everyone
Policy
Metropolitan Metamorphosis: The Creation of the City, 1870 to 1965 [Slide Show]
A visual tour of past efforts, many better left unrealized, that have shaped the way we live and work in cities—as seen in the pages of Scientific American
Technology
The Drone Wars: 9/11-Inspired Combat Leans Heavily on Robot Aircraft
The U.S. Defense Department has added thousands of automated aircraft added to its fleet over the past decade to support operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan as concerns of drone accuracy persist...
The Sciences
Science after 9/11: How Research Was Changed by the September 11 Terrorist Attacks
New work in forensics, biodefense and cyber security blossomed after the attacks on New York City, Washington, D.C., and in the skies over Pennsylvania, but increased regulations have also stymied international collaboration as well as work on some infectious diseases...
Space & Physics
U.S. Taking Initial Steps to Grapple with Space Debris Problem
A multibillion-dollar radar system should vastly increase the amount of orbital debris under surveillance, but actually removing any debris will be a monumental challenge
Policy
Twin Towers Forensic Investigation Helps Revise Building Codes, Despite Critics
Federal disaster investigators issued 31 recommendations to improve the safety of high-rises and emergency responses, but critics emerged
