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The Anthropogenic Trap
Just because we've screwed up the climate doesn't mean we're to blame for everything.
I Can't Believe It's Science (Feb. 12, 2007)
Video games boost visual acuity, the Super Bowl ads were a flop, and people lie on dating sites.
I Can't Believe It's Science (for Feb. 19, 2007)
I Can't Believe It's Science (for February 5, 2007)
I Can't Believe It's Science (for Jan. 22, 2007)
A panda slims down to mate, Nobel prize winners live longer, and having kids shortens womens' lives.
I Can't Believe It's Science (for Jan. 29, 2007)
A sloth redefines sloth, a scream kills hundreds of chickens, and a researcher determines the world's most disgusting sound.
A Second (Scientific) Opinion
Top physicists speak out against Bush Administration policies in the war on terror.
A Silver Lining to Our Science Struggles
America is worried that its global scientific advantage is in jeopardy, but is the picture really all that bleak?
AIDS at 25
Dispatches from the Labs, Cultures + Minds on the Edge
After the Fire
The fight over forest recovery
Angelic Tibet
A halo above the Tibetan Plateau becomes a beautiful sight, and a cause of health concerns, amidst the remote Himalayan peaks.
Better Than Sex
Eclipse chasers are paying big money for four minutes of ecstasy.
Champagne Wishes, But No More Caviar Dreams
International trade of caviar and other sturgeon products banned.
Cleantech Gets Green
Venture capitalists want in on the next wave.
Disaster Averted
Ohio State scientist discovers that Earth will never be affected by gamma ray bursts.
Driving Away From Oil
Auto show offers a bounty of green alternatives
Exporting Pollution
We send it to Europe; they send it to Asia. But what happens when China starts sending more our way?
Finding Flaws in Figure Skating
Even with new rules in place, the scoring of Olympic figure skating competitions could declare undeserving winners.
Going Where No Report Has Gone Before
How did a National Academies manifesto get science on the Bush administration's agenda?
I Can't Believe It's Science (for Dec. 11, 2006)
Condoms don't fit Indian men, Victoria's Secret goes green, and confident people like surprise endings.
I Can't Believe It's Science (for Dec. 18, 2006)
Michael Crichton takes on a critic, female geckos don't need mates, and scientists study families that feel no pain.
I Can't Believe It's Science (for Dec. 4, 2006)
The mentally ill prefer Bush, fertile men have more sons than daughters, and deja vu is explained—again.
I Can't Believe It's Science (for Jan. 8, 2007)
The FDA approves cloned meat, researchers say praying helps, and celebrities need some help with their science.
I Can't Believe It's Science (for Nov. 13, 2006)
Crazy gene names get an overhaul, children like lucky people, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers are the best band ever.
I Can't Believe It's Science (for Nov. 20, 2006)
Pandas get a taste of blue cinema, Stalin tried to breed ape-men, and adolescents make decisions more carefully than adults.
I Can't Believe It's Science (for Nov. 27, 2006)
Murderers are identified before they commit their crimes, lovelorn gorillas get sent to an island, and people act like their dogs.
I Can't Believe It's Science (for Nov. 6, 2006)
Pornography could prevent rape, alcohol is Finland's number one killer, and men struggle with the stubborn condom.
I Can't Believe It's Science (for Oct. 16, 2006)
Men suck it up when the game is on, women are more fashionable when they're ovulating, and PETA tries to save the cockroaches.
I Can't Believe It's Science (for Oct. 23, 2006)
Humans might split into two species, getting a bear drunk makes him easier to shoot, and hot professors are good professors.
I Can't Believe It's Science (for Oct. 30, 2006)
Ghosts aren't real, a dog gets high on toads, and school books can stop bullets.
I Can't Believe It's Science (for Oct. 9, 2006)
Neil Armstrong knows his grammar, "The Daily Show" is good for you, and the IgNobel Prizes honor ("I Can't Believe It's) science's best.
I Can't Believe It's Science (for Sept. 11, 2006)
Zoloft may help with your hair trigger, violent crimes may make you feel dirty, and a new study throws more fuel on the intelligence war between the sexes.
I Can't Believe It's Science (for Sept. 18, 2006)
Don't drink on the job when you're guarding dangerous chemicals, helmets may increase your risk of a biking accident, and men could be keeping us from world peace.
I Can't Believe It's Science (for Sept. 25, 2006)
Hawaiian field crickets learn the value of a wingman, a man loses his penis twice, and an Australian sex survey unsurprisingly finds that men are selfish lovers.
I Can't Believe It's Science: 6/16 - 6/22
Clowns can cause pregnancy, learning gets you high and the Big Apple is sweeter than you thought.
I Can't Believe It's Science: 6/23 - 6/29
More uses found for Viagra, German airline passengers light up and if you don't get sarcasm, you might have brain damage.
I Can't Believe It's Science: 6/30 - 7/6
Miniskirts can prevent pain, how to get an instant accent and an even more annoying mosquito has evolved.
I Can't Believe It's Science: 6/9 - 6/15
Sperm have a solid sense of smell, the seasonal migrations of human body fat and the funniest joke in the land.
I Can't Believe It's Science: 7/14 - 7/20
Men get stupider after sharing their bed, ferocious animals get better treatment at an Israeli hospital and a stem cell finding done without federal funding.
I Can't Believe It's Science: 7/21 - 7/27
The expanding US body doesn't fit in its medical machines, the sordid story of love between a duck and a hen and an equation that predicts when your kid is going to ask, "Are we there yet?"
I Can't Believe It's Science: 7/28 - 8/3
Humans are getting sexier, marijuana is acting as birth control and global warming warnings are using "climate porn."
I Can't Believe It's Science: 7/7 - 7/13
The ferocious animals of Australia's past, the excess of pee in German bushes and the promise of meat from stem cells.
I Can't Believe It's Science: 8/4 - 8/10
New Zealand's abundance of aggression, Special K's reversal of depression and a trio of teen sex findings guaranteed to worry any decent parent.
I Can't Believe it's Science (for Jan. 15, 2007)
Men everywhere like women with narrow waists, NASA switches to the metric system, and Euros are coated with cocaine.
If It Walks Like a Duck...
How describing a new species by referencing its closest relative often results in misinformation... and hilarity.
Ig Nobel Pursuits
Comedic awards honor offbeat science
Instant Study Hints Advertisers Should Objectify Women
Your brain's favorite Super Bowl ads may not be the ones you wanted to like the most.
Is This Cow a Human-Animal Hybrid?
A Dutch company looks to bring a protein created from transgenic cows to the American public.
Jews on Jews: Jews are Great
Steven Pinker Discusses "Jews, Genes, & Intelligence" at the Center for Jewish History.
Message in the Sky
Cosmic background radiation in our universe could hide a code from a higher power
New & Notable: 1/13 - 1/19
Swordtails measure their equipment, women smell best when they're making eggs and parrots divulge all your secrets.
New & Notable: 1/20 - 1/26
Germans are grumpy, sex is soothing and plants are not to blame for global warming.
New & Notable: 1/27 - 2/2
Savior siblings are used for their working parts, two different types of earwax, and the new toilet that comments on your flow.
New & Notable: 2/10 - 2/16
Vulture life-partners break up, the science of speed-dating and how depressing it is to be a parent.
New & Notable: 2/17 - 2/23
Sharp-toothed chickens, merciful gladiators and over-sexed athletes.
New & Notable: 2/3 - 2/9
Identifying fake Jackson Pollocks, rallying around a radish and wheezing in Scranton.
New & Notable: 3/10 - 3/16
Swelling drug test subjects, a baby held for ransom by a hospital and a case of warming corpses.
New & Notable: 3/17 - 3/23
Deep sleep my save us from extinction, pretty birds can fight off avian flu, cheese could be an alternative source of ethanol.
New & Notable: 3/24 - 3/30
Prayer doesn't help heal the heart, celebrities will fork over a fortune to feel weightless and the Polish are smarter than the Brits.
New & Notable: 3/31 - 4/6
How much to pay for a cancer cure, how healthy beans may be and how we may soon travel to the moon.
New & Notable: 4/14 - 4/20
China and Taiwan come together, penicillin's got nothing on wallaby milk and even ugly ducklings get lucky eventually.
New & Notable: 4/21 - 4/27
The Pope may OK condoms in some circumstances, you're probably think you are a little hotter than you were yesterday and a scientific guide to being a ladies man.
New & Notable: 4/28 - 5/4
The case of the mummy's missing member, touching what no one has touched before and the mayor who never flushes.
New & Notable: 4/7 - 4/13
The formula for the perfect butt, regeneration as an alternative to stem cells and how to engage a man.
New & Notable: 5/12 - 5/18
Chronic bed-wetting teenagers, what we'll suffer through not to be fat and the "Daily Show" has jaded us all.
New & Notable: 5/19 - 5/25
How whales lost their legs; forget Superman, here's super-broccoli; and looking for cure-alls on the oceanfloor.
New & Notable: 5/26 - 6/1
E. coli can make fuel out of chocolate, children don't actually comprehend TV and sex won't make the baby come any quicker.
New & Notable: 5/5 - 5/11
Dolphins can engage in name-calling, women are often harassed in chatrooms and drunk monkeys are a lot like drunk people.
New & Notable: 6/2 - 6/8
Beer to manage menopause, the Chinese tamper with the weather and baritone women get what they want.
Our Nuclear Future?
Seeking a solution to climate change, an increasing number of environmentalists are advocating nuclear power.
Plan B: The Behind-the-Counter Over-the-Counter Pill?
Three and a half years after the original application to make the morning-after birth control pill available without a prescription, the FDA continues to stall.
Prescribing Religion
Should physicians wade into the spiritual area during medical treatment?
Punishing Success at the EPA
A little known corps of engineers creates environmental innovations on an increasingly dwindling budget.
Red, White and Bleu
Researchers use scientific methodology to pair wines and cheese.
Scent of a Terrorist
Taking the lead from man's best friend, the military wants to turn odor recognition into a science.
Science in 2006
Looking Back And Facing Forward.
Scientific Copy Cats
Is China's rash of plagiarism a deeply rooted cultural issue?
Seed Video Feature: On the Ground at the XVI AIDS Conference
Bill Gates, Bill Clinton join the diverse team fighting the global battle
Should the US Take a Page Out of China's Schoolbook?
American students trail their Chinese peers in science because science is the linchpin of China's educational system.
Summers' Fall
President Lawrence H. Summers was a source of controversy at Harvard, but he always made science a top priority.
The Anthropogenic Trap
Just because we've screwed up the climate doesn't mean we're to blame for everything.
The Biological Camera
Students work at the forefront of synthetic biology to make bacteria-based photographs.
The Darwin Awards
Prizes honor the demise of the un-fittest.
The FDA is a Cauldron of Discontent
A new survey of Food and Drug Administration scientists finds wide ranging and disturbing problems throughout the agency.
The Future of Fusion
After years as a purely experimental science, a decade-long international effort will make nuclear fusion a reality.
The Invincible, Flu-Immune Pigeon
One good use for avian flu would be the destruction of pigeons. But, what's the likelihood of that?
The Week in Science 12/23-12/29
Hwang is out, Shell Oil is in trouble and 2005 gets an extra second.
The Week in Science: 1/06 - 1/12
Avian flu heads west, the north was warm in 2005 and Snuppy is all that remains of Hwang Woo-suk's eastern empire.
The Week in Science: 1/13 - 1/19
Avian flu mutates itself, Greenpeace leaves a present and the Stardust returns with, well, dust.
The Week in Science: 12/03- 12/09
Bill Clinton calls out George Bush at the UN Climate Change Conference, the genome of man's best friend is sequenced and the North Pole is on the move.
The Week in Science: 12/10 - 12/16
South Korea's cloning pioneer labeled a faker, a new map points out where endangered species could disappear and Virgin's Richard Branson finds a home for his spaceport.
The Week in Science: 12/16-12/22
The battle over evolution in Dover ends, the climate change argument intensifies and the Hwang Woo-suk saga continues.
The Week in Science: 12/30-1/5
A researcher from Hwang Woo-suk's lab tells all, NASA celebrates a second anniversary and Britain recognizes renewable energy efforts.
The Worst Thing A Scientist Can Do
ScienceBlogs' Janet Stemwedel discusses scientists' cheating ways.
