The Sciences
Beyond Red and Blue: 7 Ways to View the Presidential Election Map
Slide show reveals what the country would look like if politics trumped geography
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Health
Atherosclerosis: The New View
It causes chest pain, heart attack and stroke, leading to more deaths every year than cancer. The long-held conception of how the disease develops turns out to be wrong
Health
Taming Vessels to Treat Cancer
Restoring order to the chaotic blood vessels inside a tumor opens a window of opportunity for attacking it. Surprisingly, drugs meant to destroy vasculature can make the repairs and may help reverse conditions that lead to cardiovascular disease and blindness...
Environment
To Save the Southern Polar Environment--Dump the Antarctic Treaty
How letting nations establish territorial claims on Antarctica could save its threatened marine ecosystems.
Environment
Drawing Lines in the Sea: Nations Stake Claims on Arctic Ocean Riches
The year 2009 will see a rendezvous between science, politics and big business in the high Arctic. Though frenzied seabed mapping clarifies the geology, economic incentives cloud the discussion...
Environment
Life at the Poles: Eight Polar Animals That Face the Promise and Peril of Climate Change
When sea ice disappears some polar inhabitants advance, whereas others retreat
Environment
Will the Opening of the Northwest Passage Transform Global Shipping Anytime Soon?
With the melting of Arctic Ocean ice, the fabled waterway between Europe and Asia has been open to shipping the past two summers--or has it?
Health
Is Chronic Inflammation the Key to Unlocking the Mysteries of Cancer?
Understanding chronic inflammation, which contributes to heart disease, Alzheimer's and a variety of other ailments, may be a key to unlocking the mysteries of cancer
Technology
How Self-Powered Nanotech Machines Work
Nanosize machines need still tinier power plants
Health
Repairing the Damaged Spinal Cord
Once little more than a futile hope, some restoration of the injured spinal cord is beginning to seem feasible
Health
Heparin Scare: Deaths from Tainted Blood-Thinner Spur Race for Safe Replacement
As health inspectors probe nearly 100 deaths tied to contaminated heparin, researchers develop safer version in the lab
Health
Is 100 the New 80?: Centenarians Studied to Find the Secret of Longevity
Healthy aging may be possible with some genetic help
The Sciences
Rediscovering John Muir's Botanical Legacy
In Nature's Beloved Son John Muir's botanic samples are brought to life with compelling historical accounts and expert photography
Technology
Are You Evil? Profiling That Which Is Truly Wicked
A cognitive scientist employs malevolent logic to define the dark side of the human psyche
Mind & Brain
Factoring Fear: What Scares Us and Why
Scientists scan the brain in an attempt to explain the hows and whys of being afraid--very afraid
