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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?
bias, data, efficiency, proof, research
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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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On Extravagant Proportions
May 15, 2007
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Champagne Wishes, But No More Caviar Dreams
January 05, 2006
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Udder Impossibility
November 18, 2005
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Gorillas Use Tools, Too
October 01, 2005
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Ideas
I Tried Almost Everything Else
John Rinn, snowboarder, skateboarder, and “genomic origamist,” on why we should dumpster-dive in our genomes and the inspiration of a middle-distance runner.
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Ideas
Going, Going, Gone
The second most common element in the universe is increasingly rare on Earth—except, for now, in America.
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Ideas
Earth-like Planets Aren’t Rare
Renowned planetary scientist James Kasting on the odds of finding another Earth-like planet and the power of science fiction.
