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The Future Belongs to Women Scientists and CEOs
For the first time in its 64-year history, a prestigious, invitation-only meeting of young scientists and Nobel Laureates is made up of more women than men. -
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Environmental Crime Funds Terrorism
Environmental destruction—-from smuggling elephant tusks to illegal dumping of toxic waste—-generates as much as $213 billion annually for criminals and terrorists. David Biello reports.
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Sneezes Travel Even Farther Than We Thought
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Psychotropic Drugs Affect Men and Women Differently
Prescription painkillers, antidepressants and other brain drugs have gender-specific effects -
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Blind Mice Cured by Running
Exercise combined with visual stimulation helps to quickly restore vision in unused eyes -
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Creative Spark: Neuroscientist-Turned-Artist Shares His Process
Painter Greg Dunn describes how an aha moment kicked off his artistic career -
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Fresh-Made Neurons May Help Sort New Memories from Old Ones [Audio]
The human brain sprouts more than 1,000 new neurons daily. These cells may hold a secret to treating a range of anxiety disorders -
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Readers Respond to "How to Raise a Happy Child"
Letters to the editor from the March/April 2014 issue of Scientific American MIND -
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Modern Chemistry Techniques Save Ancient Art
Nanoparticles, laser cleaning, and glue-eating bacteria restore valuable frescoes and paintings -
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Technology
Software Finds Best Parts of Boring Video
Machine-learning researchers are developing software that automatically searches through long videos to create edited summaries, or personalized trailers. Larry Greenemeier reports.
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Neanderthal Diners Had Side of Veggies
By analyzing what came out of Neanderthals, researchers have verified that at least some of them mixed vegetation into their meaty diet. Cynthia Graber reports.
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ScienceArt Exhibits Heat Up This Summer
Take a break from the heat this summer to step into some cool galleries exhibiting scienceart. If the exhibits keep pouring in at this rate, I’ll have to split up this post by region. -
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This Week’s Coolest Science Stories
First-week-of-summer highlights include tech-savvy trees, gloppy oatmeal and vast swarms of now-extinct birds
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Tiny Electric Grids Help States Weather Extreme Storms
Eastern states in the US are employing micro grids to improve resilience after big weather -
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Archaeologists Edge Closer to Solving the Mysteries of Teotihuacán
After decades of investigation, fresh clues are emerging from Mexico’s City of Gods -
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3 Billion to Zero: What Happened to the Passenger Pigeon?
Human actions may have caused the species’s populations to grow huge as well as led to its demise -
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Health
Clinical Trials: More Trials, Fewer Tribulations
Clinical studies that group patients according to their molecular profile can make for better and faster drug approval decisions -
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When High IQs Hang Out
“Genius” societies offer a social network for the top tier of test takers By Lena Groeger -
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Evolution
Newly Discovered Mouse-like Mammal Is Closely Related to Elephants
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