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Genetic Heroes May Be Key to Treating Debilitating Diseases
The Resilience Project seeks to find people who are unaffected by genetic mutations that would normally cause severe and fatal disorders -
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How to (Try to) Make It Rain
Five ways humans attempt, mostly in vain, to control the weather -
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9 Exceptional Scientists Receive the 2014 Kavli Prizes
Cosmic inflation, nano-optics, memory and cognition are among the topics to earn recognition -
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Smart Luck: How the Big Bang Was Found by Accident [Slide Show]
Two astronomers recall almost mistaking light from the big bang for pigeon droppings -
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How Obama's EPA Will Cut Coal Pollution
Here's a primer on the EPA's upcoming rules for polluting power plants -
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Meeting of the Puzzlers: Hundreds Gather to Celebrate Martin Gardner and Recreational Math
The group that keeps Martin Gardner's magic alive -
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The Origins of Creativity
New evidence of ancient ingenuity forces scientists to reconsider when our ancestors started thinking outside the box -
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New Tanning Bed Rules Link Lamps to Cancer
FDA action will put new warnings on the devices, regulate them like other machines that emit radiation -
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Fight over Sriracha Factory Simmers Down
Sriracha fans, you can breathe easy (and stop hoarding bottles of chili sauce)—the #srirachapocalypse has definitively ended. The San Gabriel Valley Tribune reported yesterday that the city of Irwindale, Calif. -
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Proton's Magnetism Measured with Greatest Precision Yet
The finding raises the bar in the race to find discrepancies between matter and antimatter -
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What Would Make You Buy a Smartwatch?
Brilliant crowdsourced ideas that just might make these new tech accessories worth it -
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Wearable Tech Helps You Live in the Moment
Next-generation wearables promise to deliver real-time information that could benefit our health and the environment -
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The Original Scheming Ponzi
The author of a well-regarded book on Charles Ponzi discusses the rogue’s life -
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Technology
Thought-Controlled Flight Reaches the Runway
Researchers at Munich's Technical University had subjects control flight simulators with brainwaves via an EEG interface. Larry Greenemeier reports
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Evolution
Ichthyosaur Graveyard Discovered beneath Glacier
Scientists found dozens of fossils of the marine reptile, measuring up to five meters long, as the melting glacier exposed new rock faces -
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"Fastest Car on the Planet" Set for Testing in 2015 [Video]
After breaking the sound barrier of 1,223 kilometers per hour with Thrust SSC, a British team is building Bloodhound SSC to cross the 1,600-kph mark -
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Sphere-Based Science: Build Your Own Geodesic Dome
An engineering endeavor from Science Buddies -
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New Health Threats Come with Ice Melt in the Arctic
As ice sheets melt, communities worry that health effects are overlooked -
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Supersonic Aircraft for Transport, 1964
Innovation and discovery as chronicled in past issues of Scientific American -
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Mind & Brain
Stem Cell Therapy Could Transform Parkinson's
Stem cell therapy is emerging as a promising treatment for Parkinson's disease
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