ARCHIVE:
Health and Science
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Do You Think Like Sherlock Holmes?
What the detective can teach us about observation, attention, and happiness.
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Fusion Energy’s Dreamers, Hucksters, and Loons
Bottling up the power of the sun will always be 20 years away.
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Is Fat Good?
Epidemiologists struggle to explain a study that challenges a core belief: Fat will kill you.
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Dr. Oz’s Miraculous Medical Advice
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
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How Do You Ticket a Driverless Car?
You may be allowed to text while outside the car, but you can’t “drive” drunk.
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Modern-Day Typhoid Marys
Superspreaders can turn a minor outbreak into a pandemic.
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How Many Times Can You Recycle a Piece of Paper?
And why does China buy your crumpled Christmas-present wrappings?
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Longform’s Best Science Stories of 2012
The Bronx Zoo, raising a micro-preemie, and a boy who achieved nuclear fusion.
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The Worst Pandemic in History
After years of sometimes bizarre research, why are scientists still baffled by the 1918 Spanish flu?
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The Top Newfound Species of 2012
Meet the gorgeous, creepy, goofy plants and animals discovered this year.
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Persuasion vs. Coercion at the Holiday Table
Pro tips on communication strategies from Frank and Robert Oppenheimer.
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Dengue, aka “Breakbone Fever,” Is Back
The vicious virus has re-established itself in the South, and mosquitoes are carrying it north.
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How Congress Blocked Research on Gun Violence
The ugly campaign by the NRA to shut down studies at the CDC.
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White House Ends Its Interference in a Scientific Review
Leaks suggest politics blocked genetically modified salmon. Now the fish is on its way to approval.
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The Best Astronomy Images of 2012
I couldn’t pick just 10—you have to see all 21 of these mind-bending shots.
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Murder-Suicide Research Sheds Little Light on Sandy Hook
The search for answers hits its limits.
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The Flu Vaccine Controversy
Are drug companies really more dangerous than the flu virus?
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The Volume Killers
What happened at Sandy Hook in 10 minutes tells you what a high-speed shooter could do with more time.
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What’s More Dangerous: Biology or Synthetic Biology?
The latest applications made by engineering living things.
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The Invention of an Illness
Fatty liver disease has gone from unknown to pandemic, but does it mean anything?
