Medicine
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Heads Up
October 09, 2009
As the Nobels are awarded, President Obama and friends grab their telescopes and head injuries to athletes go under the microscope.
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Microbial Warfare
October 07, 2009
Antibiotic resistance is more than just a medical scourge; it’s also a window into a war microbes have been waging against each other for hundreds of millions of years.
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Death and the Rumor Mill
August 21, 2009
With healthcare reform on the table, rumors about end of life care were greatly exaggerated. Plus a carnivorous plant is hyped and DNA evidence is faked.
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Week in Review: June 5
June 05, 2009
Two steps on the road to Copenhagen, protecting older women against cervical cancer, another university comes out for open access, and the possibility of a European origin for great apes.
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Battling Dengue in Argentina
May 28, 2009
A writer reports from the dengue epidemic in Argentina, where locals are asking hard questions of government and exploring a wide-reaching approach to prevention.
cities, climate, development, medicine, multilateralism, politics, water
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Week in Review: May 8
May 08, 2009
Animal research reconsidered in Europe, the death of a glacier, some leaders decide to save green instead of going green, and new evidence for hobbits as bona fide species rather than a genetic mistake.
environment, medicine, policy, politics, research, week in review
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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 Parasite Puzzle
April 27, 2009
How one of Africa’s deadliest pathogens uses on-the-fly, genetic costume changes to outsmart our immune system.
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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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Voodoo That Scientists Do
February 24, 2009
When findings are debated online, as with a yet to be released paper that calls out the field of social neuroscience, who wins?
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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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From Simulation to Solution
February 02, 2009
How new technologies can help to finally rid the world of malaria.
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Seeing in the Dark
January 14, 2009
A blind man shocks researchers with what he sees.
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Predicting Outbreaks
December 17, 2008
Satellites, a shift in epidemiology, and Google combine to stop disease before it starts.
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Flu Beginnings
August 14, 2008
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Troubled Water
March 10, 2008
How do trace amounts of pharmaceuticals in the water affect our bodies?
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At AIDS Conference, Vaccines Take a Back Seat to Microbicides
August 16, 2006
Scientists and funding agencies are pegging gels or creams that prevent the transmission of HIV during sex as the key to stopping the pandemic.
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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.
