Enhancement
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Monkey See, Monkey Juice
September 18, 2009
An elegant gene therapy trial “cures” colorblindness in monkeys and new film about Darwin attempts to drum up some controversy.
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The Rorschach Paintings
August 18, 2009
In creating her new series, Pareidolia, artist and chemist Vesna Jovanovic detected biomorphic and medical forms in blots of ink.
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Energy for Nothing, Carbs for Free
April 28, 2009
When we push athletes to their limits in the lab, we’re learning that their brains give up before their muscles do. Is fatigue really just all in our heads?
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The Achilles’ Heel of Aging
April 20, 2009
Understanding the biological basis of senescence may allow us to delay or prevent the degenerative declines long accepted as an inevitable part of getting older.
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Little Lithium Battery That Could
March 30, 2009
By taking a second look at existing battery materials, researchers have found the secret to unleashing the electrical power of the common lithium-ion battery.
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A Hormone to Remember
February 17, 2009
Oxytocin emerges as a key player in our facility for social memory.
cognition, disease, enhancement, medicine, neuroscience, research
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The Future of Science…Is Art?
January 16, 2008
To answer our most fundamental questions, science needs to find a place for the arts.
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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.
