ASTRONOMY
For the first time in hundreds of years, the most powerful telescopes may soon come from Europe.
SCIENCE
A new report urges the Obama administration to pick up the pace on adding more plants and animals to the endangered species list.
ENVIRONMENT
If only it were so. Why it may be time to give up the one-day-a-year celebration.
SCIENCE
Now we can trace the real environmental impact of the stuff we buy. How to raise your own eco-IQ.
CULTURE
Dinosaur experts are saddened but not surprised by the theft of a fossil.
PEOPLE TO WATCH
Saving the World, One Molecule at a Time
ENVIRONMENT
Is clean coal technology fact or fiction?
ON SCIENCE
The difference between the door-buster price and the current one activates 'what if' neurons.
SCIENCE
A leading neuroscientist says processing digital information can rewire your circuits. But is it evolution?
WOMEN & LEADERSHIP
Nancy Andrews, dean of Duke Medical School, on the challenges facing women in science.
THE FUTURE OF ENERGY
A Tennessee congressman says with the energy crisis we face another Sputnik moment.
SCIENCE
Flipping the ON switch on history's biggest and most expensive experiment.
THE FUTURE OF ENERGY
The founder of the world's first carbon-offsets exchange would like to clear the air.
SCIENCE
Bigfoot hunters are still reeling from the latest hoax, but some scientists keep the faith.
Sports and Medicine
Is 'gene doping' the next Olympic threat?
ENVIRONMENT
A seismologist on the importance of bracing for the Big One
PROJECT GREEN
How a tiny bug is ravaging Colorado's forests
SCIENCE
A new book explains why sniffing pastries may make you nicer.
ASTRONOMY
How it feels to be 'Plutoed.'
ENVIRONMENT
ENVIRONMENT
The 'threatened' label helps, but polar bears face a difficult future.
HEALTH
Why the military is backing the cool new field of regenerative medicine.
SCIENCE
Scientists finally get a chance to examine the immense, mysterious creature hauled ashore a year ago.
ENVIRONMENT
A water crisis is impending. In a new book, Jeffrey Sachs outlines easy, low-cost ways to avoid disaster.
PSYCHOLOGY
Why do powerful men risk everything for sex? It has to do with brain chemistry, evolution and, yes, testosterone.
SCIENCE
A court order says animal-rights activists have gone too far.
NATION
What will be lost with the shoot-down of a U.S. spy satellite.
PSYCHOLOGY
The push for ever-greater well-being is facing a backlash, fueled by research on the value of sadness.
POLITICS
Science shows that when we are deciding which candidate to support, anxiety, enthusiasm and whom we identify with count more than reason or logic.
NEUROLOGY
Scientists are using state of the art technology to look at what happens in the brain when a person scratches an itch. There's more going on than you might think.
OUTER SPACE
Virgin Galactic revealed the designs for its tourist spacecraft. A NASA expert critiques the effort.
PSYCHOLOGY
A British researcher reports that the male ego is often larger than his actual IQ. But you might be surprised by what women think of men's intellect.
PREGNANCY
A new study links increased miscarriage risk to caffeine consumption, but other experts say a cup or two a day is fine. What's a coffee-loving mom to do?
SCIENCE
What is most surprising is not that we once lived in the sea, but that we are still evolving.
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