Competition
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Pushing a Power Portfolio
October 30, 2009
As alternative energy funding plans are rolled out, a long-running debate over nuclear rages on Earth and in space.
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Our Shifting Urban Landscape
October 06, 2009
Urban ecologist James Danoff-Burg takes us into the field to demonstrate the tools of analyzing the biodiversity of human-altered ecosystems.
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Altruism vs. Selfishness
September 26, 2009
The idea that evolution explains selfishness well and altruism poorly is starting to stink. Can we please bury it now?
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The One that Got Away
September 25, 2009
A dead fish has caused a stink over false positives in fMRI studies, and while gloom and doom reign at UN climate talks, renting a movie you actually like has never been easier.
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Survival of the Kindest
September 24, 2009
In his new book, The Age of Empathy, Frans de Waal outlines an alternative to “Nature, red in tooth and claw.” Can a vision of a more empathic world change the way we behave toward each other?
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Molecular Mimicry
September 09, 2009
New biological research has revealed mimicry at the molecular scale that could have profound implications for medicine and industry.
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The Dymaxion Tomorrow
May 07, 2009
A city-wide vehicle sharing program, a latrine block that treats sewage on-site, and bicycles that double as ambulances take top honors in the Buckminster Fuller Design Challenge.
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Growing the Tangled Bank
April 10, 2009
Darwin is best known for natural selection, but he saw the power of chance and development, too.
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Be Fruitful and Multiply
February 12, 2009
Agriculture and civilization have sped up the evolution of humanity. From this simple thesis grows an argument aimed at the heart of how we think about history.
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Research at Badwater
January 01, 2009
The most extreme running race in the world attracts researchers looking for physiological data that can't, or shouldn't, be reproduced.
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Yeast Gone Wild
December 18, 2008
Feral yeast shed light on one of Darwin's greatest evolutionary puzzles, by getting drunk and socializing.
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The US Versus God Particles
November 24, 2008
The Atom Smashers splits open the US's problematic relationship with scientific research.
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Bacterial Foresight
October 09, 2008
Can bacteria anticipate changes in their environment?
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How We Evolve
October 07, 2008
A growing number of scientists argue that human culture itself has become the foremost agent of biological change.
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The Trouble with Biodiversity
October 07, 2008
Life is more varied near the equator. But making sense of that has confounded biologists for 200 years.
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World
Sad Sacks
As a UK adviser is fired over politically unpalatable advice and an English teacher is suspended over an article about animal sexuality, the fate of facts is on the line.
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Ideas
Sweet Obesity
As obesity rates soar, Americans are consuming more low-calorie artificial sweeteners. But do artificial sweeteners actually help people lose weight?
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Books
Books to Read Now
November releases feature the mysteries of Grigori Perelman, the evolutionary origins of reading, and strategies for containing strains of flu.
