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  • Climate skeptic science does not compute

    RealClimate.org: Where junk science gets shredded into tiny pieces.
    By Andrew Leonard May 1, 2006

  • Not a drop to drink

    Pointing out that it takes 800 gallons of water to make one hamburger, a British writer argues that water shortage is the "defining crisis" of our time.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski April 25, 2006

  • The original mad scientist

    The 16th century alchemist known as Paracelsus was a drunken, foul-mouthed coot -- and the unlikely father of modern medicine.
    By Ben Cosgrove April 18, 2006

  • Taking the pulse of "Pulse"

    A Big Book on science, technology and nature joins the blogosphere.
    By Andrew Leonard April 13, 2006

  • "Religious belief itself is an adaptation"

    Sociobiology founder Edward O. Wilson explains why we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions, denies that "evolutionism" is a faith, and says that heaven, if it existed, would be hell.
    By Steve Paulson March 21, 2006

  • Secrets of the cosmos

    Could the universe be a giant computer? A new book argues just that, and unlocks some great scientific mysteries along the way.
    By Laura Miller March 6, 2006

  • Filtering the China filters

    Studying up on the Middle Kingdom: An online avalanche.
    By Andrew Leonard January 11, 2006

  • Go Blue! Michigan scores more women science faculty

    Recruitment program scientifically proven to work!
    By Lynn Harris January 4, 2006

  • Ice queen

    In Antarctica, Gretchen Legler found a tribe of eccentrics living at 70-below under the biggest ozone hole on earth. She also found love.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski December 20, 2005

  • The Big Idea: No more breakthroughs

    We live in a period of explosive scientific progress. But admitting that science has limits may be our greatest achievement.
    By John Horgan November 10, 2005

  • Weird science

    Are we descendants of clay? Is rock slime related to Grandpa? A fantastic new book tours the competing theories of how life on Earth began 4 billion years ago.
    By Andrew O'Hehir October 31, 2005

  • We see dead people?

    In a follow-up to her bestselling "Stiff," Mary Roach searches for proof of the afterlife -- and finds some startling (and scary) evidence.
    By Priya Jain October 21, 2005

  • The know-nothings

    Pro-business Republicans and the religious right have joined in a frighteningly successful campaign to undermine the findings of science.
    By Andrew O'Hehir September 14, 2005

  • "No one can say they didn't see it coming"

    In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war.
    By Sidney Blumenthal August 31, 2005

  • Keeping America safer -- with science

    As more evidence surfaces that the Bush administration can't be bothered with scientific accuracy, the ACLU tries framing science as a national security issue.
    By Page Rockwell June 21, 2005

  • Everything you always wanted to know about the stem cell debate

    George Bush's opposition to stem cell research is intellectually and morally incoherent. Here's why.
    By Farhad Manjoo June 8, 2005

  • Does George Bush even know what science is?

    A new political advocacy organization, Scientists and Engineers for Change, is pretty sure the answer is no. And so they're going on the warpath.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski September 30, 2004

  • "The Beast in the Garden" by David Baron

    It's no illusion -- mountain lions are attacking more humans than they used to. And why not? After all, we lured the big cats into our suburbs and taught them to view us as food.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski January 14, 2004

  • "In the Name of Science" by Andrew Goliszek

    From the Tuskegee study to Josef Mengele, from soldiers forced to march into A-bomb clouds to the CIA's secret LSD trials, a biologist provides a frightening tour of the 20th century's most evil experiments.
    By Farhad Manjoo January 8, 2004

  • They ban textbooks, don't they?

    Texas school officials rejected a widely used environmental textbook, claiming it was filled with errors. The author says they're censoring him because they didn't like his green views -- and he's suing.
    By Frederick Clarkson November 5, 2003

  • Y are men necessary?

    Two new books on genetics explore how the Y-chromosome divides males from females -- and ask whether male humans are headed for the biological dustbin.
    By Gavin McNett June 5, 2003

  • Dead man decomposing

    An excerpt from "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers," by Mary Roach.
    April 17, 2003

  • Move over, Dr. Phil!

    Dr. Tatiana mostly offers advice on banana slug penis problems and sponge louse jealousy, but we can all gain from her sexual wisdom.
    By Susan McCarthy January 27, 2003

  • Big trouble in the world of "Big Physics"

    Six months ago, Jan Hendrik Schön seemed like a slam dunk nominee for a Nobel prize. Then some of his colleagues started to take a closer look at his research.
    By Leonard Cassuto September 16, 2002

  • Sometimes a snake orgy is just a snake orgy

    A new book examines what we can and can't learn about sex from watching bonobos, birds and earwigs.
    By Susan McCarthy July 22, 2002
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