Health and Science
How to Fix the Organ Transplant Shortage
The chaotic, ethically murky case of a 10-year-old girl in need of lungs. READ MORE »
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Bad Astronomy
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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 Human Genome
Weird, wonderful stories about each of your 23 chromosomes.
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Blogging the Periodic Table
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Why Do So Many People Think They Need Gluten-Free Foods?
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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.
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Surprised by the Stork
The realization that you’re pregnant sometimes comes at the same time the baby does.
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Stop Saying “Sexual Preference”
You may mean well, but it makes you sound ignorant.
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Why Is Exercise Such a Chore?
Human evolution made us long-distance runners, but it didn’t make us like it.
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I Discovered the BRCA1 Gene
And I am delighted the Supreme Court ruled that it cannot be patented.
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Map: Places That Will Flood More Often Due to Global Warming
Projected changes in flood hazard areas by 2100, mapped.
