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The Man Who Wasn't Darwin: Alfred Russel Wallace on the Centenary of His Death

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Perv-View: Jesse Bering's New Book <i>PERV</i>

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The 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Karplus, Levitt and Warshel

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The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics: Englert and Higgs

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The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Rothman, Schekman and S&#252;dhof

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Alan Alda Communicates Science

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Ira Flatow and the Teachable Moment

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Adam Rutherford's Creation Science (The Real Kind) Part 2

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Kids JUMP for Math [John Mighton's Junior Undiscovered Math Prodigies]

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Adam Rutherford's Creation Science (the Real Kind), Part 1

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Nobel Laureate Harry Kroto: The Threatened Enlightenment

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Penis Enlightenment: Bering Straight Talk

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Close Shave for Bill Nye the Science Guy

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Is There a Doctor in the Spaceship?

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Mary Roach Cruises the Alimentary Canal

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Start Talking: Synthetic Biology and Conservation Biology Meet, Part 2

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Start Talking: Synthetic Biology and Conservation Biology Meet, Part 1

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Imagine All the People Turning Blue and Green

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Biotech's Brave New Beasts, Part 2

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Biotech's Brave New Beasts, Part 1

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CSI: 19th-Century France and the Birth of Forensic Science

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John Rennie Hacks the Planet

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Inside Isaac: A Discussion of Newton, Part 2

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Inside Isaac: A Discussion of Newton, Part 1

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<i>Extinction</i>: New Sci-Fi from Mark Alpert

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Science and Tech in President Obama's SOTU

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Michael C. Hall Analyzes His Dexter's Mind, Part 2

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Michael C. Hall Analyzes His Dexter's Mind, Part 1

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Psychopathy's Bright Side: Kevin Dutton on the Benefits of Being a Bit Psychopathic, Part 2

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Psychopathy's Bright Side: Kevin Dutton on the Benefits of Being a Bit Psychopathic, Part 1

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Creativity's Dark Side: Dan Ariely on Creativity, Rationalization and Dishonesty

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Darwin in Space: How Multigenerational Missions Could Shape Human Evolution

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David Quammen: The Spillover of Animal Infections to Humans

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Scientific American after Sandy

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The 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics

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The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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The Climate of Climate Science

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The Flynn Effect: Modernity Made Us Smarter

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What's Next for Curiosity on Mars

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Curiosity Lands on Mars

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Plants Know Stuff

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Super-Earths: Bigger, and Maybe Better

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The Transit of Venus, Part 2

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The Transit of Venus, Part 1

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Virus Victors: People Who Control HIV

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The Football Concussion Crisis

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Killer Chimps and Funny Feet: Report from the AAPA Conference

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Getting Guinea Worm Gone: Report from the AHCJ Conference

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Food Poisoning's Lasting Legacy

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Fukushima Anniversary: We Listen Back

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AAAS Report: Fracking, Whale Rights, Higgs Evidence and <i>Twitter</i> Truthiness

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If You're Happy, How You Know It

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The Coming Entanglement: Bill Joy and Danny Hillis

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More with Maryn: McKenna on Antibiotic Resistance

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Fecal Transplants: The Straight Poop

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State of the Union: Research, Technology and Energy

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A Second Science Front: Evolution Champions Rise to Climate Science Defense

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Man from Mars: Health and Nutrition Research at Mars, Inc., and Beyond

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The <i>YouTube</i> SpaceLab Competition

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Large Hadron Collider Backgrounder

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Out of Our Depth: Sea Level on the Rise

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Brian Greene Talks Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos

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The Mind's Hidden Switches

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The Discovery of Quasicrystals: The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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An Accelerating Universe: The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics

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Cancer Vaccines

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Science Legend Christian de Duve

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Carl Zimmer on Rats, Cats, Viruses and Tattoos

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Carl Zimmer on Evolution in the Big City

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The City That Became Safe: What New York Teaches about Urban Crime and Its Control

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Nobel Laureate Avram Hershko: The Orchestra in the Cell

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Nobel Laureate Peter Agre: From Aquaporins to Lutefisk

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Let's Make a Probabilistic Deal: A Fresh Look at the Monty Hall Problem

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How Physics Limits Intelligence

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Dying for Science: The 100th Anniversary of the Doomed Scott Antarctic Expedition

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Skirting Steak: The Case for Artificial Meat

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Astronaut Love: An Interview with Spacewalker Stanley Love

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Editors' Roundtable: Science Conference Reports

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Can It Be Bad to Be Too Clean?: The Hygiene Hypothesis

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Self-Aware Robots?

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The Cornucopia Conference: Roundtable on the AAAS Meeting

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The Spirit of Innovation: From High School to the Moon

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What's New with Science News

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Jefferson's Moose: Thomas's Fauna Fight against European Naturalists

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What Is the Watson Jeopardy-Playing Supercomputer, Alex?

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Vinod Khosla: Searching for the Radical Solution

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How You Gonna Keep Flu Down on the Farm?: Pig Farms and Public Health

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Anna Deavere Smith: Let Me Down Easy

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The Spewings of Titan (and More from the AGU Meeting)

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Let's Talk Stuffing--Your Face

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Let's Talk Turkey!

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Why Do Women Live Longer Than Men?

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Physics Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg

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Photograph 51: Rosalind Franklin and the Race For The Double Helix of DNA (Part 2 of 2)

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Photograph 51: Rosalind Franklin and the Race for the Double Helix of DNA, Part 1 of 2

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The Quest for the Giant Pumpkin

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Not Your Grandfather's <i>Scientific American</i>

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The Harlem Science Renaissance

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Astrospies

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Expelled Explained

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A Scientists' Bill of Rights?

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Baseball Science

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For the Birds: A look at birds, habitat conservation and environmental economics

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Science and America's Future

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A Mars Rovers Once-Over

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Arachnophilia! And War...What Was It Good for (in Human Evolution)?

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Science, Science Everywhere: AAAS Conference Highlights

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Fat Chance: Do Dietary Guidelines Actually Contribute to Obesity?

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You Say Potato, I Say Cassava: Language, Culture and Perception

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Knock, Knock, Hal's There: Teaching Computers Humor; and the 50th Anniversary of America's First Satellite

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What's The Matter?: Cold Dark Matter and the Milky Way's Missing Satellites

113

Mindful Motion: Miguel Nicolelis and Mind-Powered Robots; and Creating Science Cities in Brazil and Beyond

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Whose Phone Is It, Anyway: Did Bell Steal The Invention?

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Pay Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain: Sci Am's History of Debunking

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What's In A Latin Name: The Legacy of Linnaeus

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Here Comes the Sun--A Grand Plan for Solar Energy; and Sci Am's New Body

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Are There (Microbial) Aliens On Earth?

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Three Whiz Kids, Two Winning Projects And A Nobel Laureate

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Neuroscience and the Law

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The Science of Cheese; and Scientific American's New Community

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Need For New Nukes?; and News From Neuroscience

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The Ethics of Climate Change; and NOVA Does Dover

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Quest for the Giant Pumpkin

125

Good Germs, Bad Germs

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Chickens and Pigs and Yeast, Oh My!: The Public Health Threat of Animal Diseases; and Gene Duplication in Evolution

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When Worlds Collide: The Ig Nobel and Nobel Prizes

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The Final Frontier: Our Future in Space

129

Who Do You Think You Are: Chatting With Bots, and the Sexuality Spectrum

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What's In A Rose: Ethnobotany and the Search for Useful Plants

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Can Fat Be Fit?

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Putting Food On The Table: What To Eat

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Another Look at The World Without Us; and What's New At Scientific American

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The World Is Fat: Obesity Now Outweighs Hunger WorldWide

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Is Your Food Contaminated; New Orleans Now; And the Science of Dogs

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Better Brains: The Revolution in Brain Science

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Is Privacy Dead? Technological Approaches to the Technological Threat

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Saddle Up That Stegosaurus--A Visit to the Creation Museum

139

Space For Both?--Human Vs. Robotic Space Missions

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Systems Biology: The Future of Biomedical Science?

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Benjamin Franklin the Scientist

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The World Without Us: Suppose Humans Just Vanished--Then What?

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Why We Eat, Eat and Eat Some More; and Remembering Mr. Wizard

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Jared Diamond on the State of the World Environment

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Mark Twain: Fossil Hunter and Science Writer

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How Cargo Containers Shrank the World and Transformed Trade; and Smart Skylights

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Lying in Weight: The Hidden Epidemic of Eating Disorders in Adult Women (And A Few Men)

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The Encyclopedia of Life; and the End of John Horgan's Pessimism

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Beer Science; And A Cancer Research Report

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Small Matters: Microbes In Us And The Environment

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Peer Review of Peer Review; and the Franklin Institute Awards

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Atul Gawande, Author of Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

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Catching Corrupted Photos; and Big Bird Brains

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Baseball Science

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Alcoholism and Genetics; and Why Aren't the Pioneer Spacecraft Where They Should Be?

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Naturally Speaking: Finding Nature's Treasure Trove with the Global Ocean Sampling Expedition; and Natural Products Chemistry

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Made To Stick: Crafting Memorable Messages; and Cycling For Days On A Gallon Of Gas

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Leave It To Beaver (To Return To New York City); and AccesScience '07, Communicating Science To Everyone

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Who Speaks For Science?

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No Laughing Matter: Mo Rocca On Humor Theory; Report From the AAAS Conference