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Mind & Brain
Sound Waves Can Heal Brain Disorders
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Scientific American Volume 311, Issue 5
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Engineering and Water, 1914 [Slide Show]
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A Matter of Time
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Time’s Passage is Probably an Illusion
From the fixed past to the tangible present to the undecided future, it feels as though time flows inexorably on. But that is an illusion -
Features
Evolution
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How Fake Fossils Pervert Paleontology [Excerpt]
A nebulous trade in forged and illegal fossils is an ever-growing headache for paleontologists -
Talking back
Mind & Brain
Learning About Your Family's Elevated Alzheimer's Risk—As Early As Age Eight
A Colombian university is providing regular workshops on brain basics and genetics to grade schoolers from families who face a high risk of developing Alzheimer's in the prime of life from a rare genetic mutation. -
60-Second Science
Health
Semen Protects HIV From Microbicide Attack
Microbicides that kill HIV in the lab often fail in clinical trials. A study finds that semen may be the culprit. Cynthia Graber reports.
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Science Talk
Health
Doctors Without Borders Fight On Ebola's Front Lines
Scientific American health and medicine correspondent Dina Fine Maron talks with Armand Sprecher of Doctors Without Borders, who has fought Ebola in Guinea and Liberia. And Steve talks Ebola with Stanford's David Relman, chair of the Forum on Microbial Threats of the Institute of Medicine. -
Nature
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Cellular "Computers" Gain a Hard Drive
DNA-based memory can record multiple inputs from engineered gene circuits -
Reuters
Energy & Sustainability
Obama to Pledge $3 Billion for International "Green" Fund
President Barack Obama on Friday will announce a $3 billion U.S. contribution to the green climate fund, an international effort to help poor countries cope with the effects of climate change, according to an administration official. -
Reuters
Health
U.S. Court Rejects Religious Objection to Obamacare Contraception Deal
In a win for the Obama administration on insurance coverage for contraception under Obamacare, a U.S -
Cross-Check
Energy & Sustainability
Green Analysts Respond to Cross-Check Concerns about Warming, War and Hawkish U.S. Policies
For a professional blowhard, there is no worse fate than being ignored. So I’m always—well, almost always—delighted when my posts get pushback, especially from people who are smart, well-informed and thoughtful. -
Frontiers for Young Minds
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It is Never too Early to Think – and Communicate – Like a Scientist
When you think about the job of a scientist, what images come into your mind? A chemist wearing a lab coat surrounded by beakers? A geologist out studying rocks in the desert? -
Climatewire
Energy & Sustainability
Should American Wood Fuel European Power?
Growth of wood-fueled power generation in Europe spurs protests from Southern environmentalists in the U.S. -
News
Energy & Sustainability
Raft Ride on Tibet’s Powerful Rivers Reveals Regional Meltdown
Journalist Michael Buckley moves beyond the genocide in Tibet to report on the “ecocide” occurring in the region due to climate change, mining and dams -
Plugged In
Energy & Sustainability
Has Support For Fracking Really Decreased? Maybe Not.
According to a new poll out by Pew of 1,353 Americans, support for the increased use of fracking has declined over the past year with 41% of Americans in favor of the practice and 47% opposed. -
Anecdotes from the Archive
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The Ferocity of Artillery, 1914
Reported in Scientific American, This Week in World War I: November 14, 1914 The tactical use of artillery had been evolving in the years before the Great War: In South Africa in the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 the British developed the concept of the "creeping barrage," where a curtain of shellfire proceeded just in front [...] -
Nature
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Scientific Advisor Post Scrapped by Europeans
The mechanism for replacing this post, created three years ago to provide independent scientific advice to the president of the European Commission, remains unclear -
Inside Science News Service
Space
Meteorite Bears Evidence of Magnetic Fields in Early Solar System
New research shows that magnetic fields played a role in the solar system's formation -
60-Second Science
Health
Select Few Can Truly Drink to Their Health
Alcohol's supposed benefit to the heart may only be available to people with the right genes. Christopher Intagliata reports -
A Matter of Time
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Time Keeping Has a Long, Colorful History
Our conception of time depends on the way we measure it
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