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Climate skeptic science does not compute
RealClimate.org: Where junk science gets shredded into tiny pieces.
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 Apr 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 Apr 18, 2006
Taking the pulse of "Pulse"
A Big Book on science, technology and nature joins the blogosphere.
Andrew Leonard Apr 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 Mar 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 Mar 6, 2006
Filtering the China filters
Studying up on the Middle Kingdom: An online avalanche.
Andrew Leonard Jan 11, 2006
Go Blue! Michigan scores more women science faculty
Recruitment program scientifically proven to work!
Lynn Harris Jan 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 Dec 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 Nov 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 Oct 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 Oct 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 Sep 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 Aug 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.
Page Rockwell Jun 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 Jun 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 Sep 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 Jan 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 Jan 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 Nov 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 Jun 5, 2003
Dead man decomposing
An excerpt from "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers," by Mary Roach.
Apr 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 Jan 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 Sep 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 Jul 22, 2002
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