Efficiency
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Blueprinting Biology
September 28, 2009
Scientists develop a visual language for mapping biological systems that they hope will become “the circuit diagrams of biology.”
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Acupuncture: Real or Sham?
September 02, 2009
Controls for acupuncture studies are improving. Their results are not. How are peer reviewers reacting?
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The Deepest Links
July 06, 2009
Evolution is a tinkerer. When novel features evolve, old parts are co-opted for new roles.
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Critical Mass
June 22, 2009
For particle physicists who study phase transitions, a traffic jam is simply a solid made up of idling cars.
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An Icon of Sustainability
May 08, 2009
Since opening last September in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco's California Academy of Sciences has fast become an icon of architecture for the eco era.
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The Running Man, Revisited
March 18, 2009
The endurance running hypothesis, the idea that humans evolved as long-distance runners, may have legs thanks to a new study on toes.
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Udder Impossibility
November 18, 2005
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Gorillas Use Tools, Too
October 01, 2005
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Innovation
Let There Be Light
Astronomers will soon find scores of Earth-sized exoplanets, but imaging them may be decades away. That is, unless NASA decides to build a starshade.
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Ideas
Into the Uncanny Valley
New findings shed light on a century’s worth of bizarre explanations for the eerie feeling we get around lifelike robots.
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World
Signs from Above
The release of an apocalyptic movie prompts NASA to debunk planetary rumors, fowl play shuts down the LHC, and the Catholic Church discusses alien life.
