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Health
National Screening for Mental Illness in Teens Inspires Controversy
If mental illness is epidemic among teenagers, why isn't screening for it routine?
Health
A Stroke for Stem Cells
The brain becomes a target in stem cell clinical trials
Health
Five New Year's Resolutions You Owe Yourself
We questioned health professionals and plumbed the scientific literature in a quest for the most life-enhancing New Year's resolutions possible
Environment
GM Resurrects Its Electric Car (with Tweaks)
With the unveiling of its new electric concept car--the Chevrolet Volt-- GM resuscitates an electric car program that died with the canceled EV-1
The Sciences
The Pillow Angel Case--Three Bioethicists Weigh In
We asked three of the country's most esteemed bioethicists to give their professional opinion--was the "Ashley Treatment" a wise decision?
The Sciences
How Much AIDS Vaccine Do Poor Countries Really Want?
Public health groups take a page from business to understand the developing world's weak demand for drugs and vaccines
The Sciences
Most Important Science Stories of 2006
Humans controlled computers with the power of thought, built an invisibility cloak, cracked the mystery of a 3,000-year-old computer, discovered a new element, unearthed a missing link and kicked Pluto out of the planet club--and those are just the highlights...
Health
The World's First Neural Stem Cell Transplant
In the coming decades this work could lead to treatments for neurodegenerative disorders that affect millions
The Sciences
Special Report: 10 Promising Treatments for World's Biggest Health Threats
Cutting-edge pharmaceuticals now being tested could revolutionize the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, HIV, diabetes, nicotine addiction and other devastating diseases
Space & Physics
SLIDESHOW: The Quest for Alien Life Begins in Our Own Back Yard
Just about every planet in the solar system that might harbor life has an analog on Earth--and that's the first place scientists thought to look
The Sciences
Ask a Nobel Laureate
The Laureates provide answers to the best of your questions
The Sciences
20 Gadgets We Love
Objects of desire for folks who appreciate the application of science to the problem of cool
The Sciences
Partial to Crime
Families become suspects as rules on dna matches relax
Health
Blastomere Blowup
A novel way to harvest stem cells intrigues and inflames
