Health and Science
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The Mouse Trap
The dangers of using one lab animal to study every disease.
By Daniel Engber
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The Memory Doctor
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The Rosslyn Code
The real mystery lurking in the chapel where Dan Brown set The Da Vinci Code.
By Chris Wilson
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Blogging the Periodic Table
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What Ever Happened to Quicksand?
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Revolting Creatures
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Just Hold Me
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Future Tense
The citizen's guide to the future, from Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State.
MOST RECENT STORIES
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Battle-Hardened by the Climate Wars
The author of the "hockey stick" graph tells his story.
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Eugene Hoskins Is His Name
The long-forgotten story of a black autistic man in Oxford, Miss., who crossed paths with William Faulkner.
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The Technologically Enhanced Memory
How will life change if we can’t forget anything?
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Uncle Sam Is Not Coming to Dinner
Who won the Slate/Intelligence Squared debate on whether obesity is the government’s business, and why.
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How Komen Became a Tool
Defunding Planned Parenthood over “controversy” was politics by another name.
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Twinkies Are Science Fair Projects
And other reasons the government should play a role in America’s war on obesity.
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You’re Just Going To Have To Hold It
Do animals that hibernate get up to go to the bathroom?
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The Curse of the White Powder
How fake bioterrorism attacks became a real problem.
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The High Price of Long Life
If anti-aging drugs are possible, they will require dangerous—and ethically troubling—clinical trials.
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Non-Consenting Adults
The Nuremberg Code, set up to protect the human subjects of research, is being routinely ignored.
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Check Your Head
Does testing athletes for concussion with fancy software do any good?
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The Very Real Paranoia Over Genetically Modified Foods
Can your body "absorb information" from lab-engineered fruits and vegetables?
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So Much Hot Air
Negotiators achieved yet another hollow “breakthrough” in the latest round of climate talks.
