Law
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On Rethinking IP
January 31, 2011
Licensing patents for the developing world can help bring innovations in nutrition, medicine, and countless other fields to the people who need them the most.
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Ebbs and Flows
August 27, 2010
Alien-yet-familiar worlds are discovered around distant stars, extreme weather batters the Earth, stimulus spending energizes renewables, and the stem-cell debate reignites.
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fMRI on Trial
June 08, 2010
If neuroimaging can reliably discern truth from falsehood, should brain scans be admissible evidence in court cases?
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Press Gang
March 05, 2010
With New York City about to let bloggers qualify for press passes, a look at what breaking down the walls between old and new media means for science reporting.
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Bad Memories
June 13, 2009
Eyewitness testimony is both fallible and irreplaceable. How can we know when to trust it?
bias, crime, law, neuroscience
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Week in Review: May 15
May 15, 2009
Gene patents are challenged, Austria pulls out of CERN, the carbon tax stays alive in British Columbia, and scientists discover new importance of larvae to ant colonies.
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How We Saved the Ozone Layer
April 22, 2009
Modeling climate in our past, present, and future worlds.
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The Anthrax Agenda
April 14, 2009
Eight years into an investigation that has consumed millions of dollars, some scientists and legislators remain unconvinced that the FBI's case is closed.
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Scientific Integrity Memorandum
March 09, 2009
Ensuring the highest level of integrity in all aspects of the executive branch's involvement with scientific and technological processes.
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Crime and Causality Loops
February 02, 2009
Getting to the root of corruption in Colombia and Mexico.
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Nepal: Save the Dolphin!
January 19, 2009
Misguided hunting, pesticide fishing, and a network of dams threaten the future of a resident mammal in the Ganges.
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Letter to Obama
January 16, 2009
Forty-nine American Nobel laureates and other distinguished American scientists call the president's attention to the importance of increasing funding for scientific research.
democracy, ethics, funding, governance, law, policy, politics
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Seed Picks 2008
December 23, 2008
Seed selects the year's outstanding book releases, from Mary Roach's sex book, Bonk, to E.O. Wilson's ant colony opus, The Superorganism.
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Of Primates and Personhood
December 12, 2008
Will according rights and "dignity" to nonhuman organisms halt research?
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Preserving Tranquility
October 28, 2008
Should the sites of lunar landings be protected as part of our cultural inheritance?
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China’s Environmental Blacklist
March 07, 2008
Shining the light on international companies that haven’t heard China’s gone green.
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Deep Space
December 20, 2007
The last great land rush on the planet will be at the bottom of the ocean.
climate, decision making, development, geography, law, policy, politics
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The New Federalism
January 19, 2006
Is the United States government unburdening itself of the big science issues and handing those responsibilities to individual states?
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The Caviar Kings
January 16, 2006
Inside the cartels that built empires and destroyed species.
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The Ascent of Sand
September 30, 2005
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