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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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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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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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Murder-Suicide Research Sheds Little Light on Sandy Hook
The search for answers hits its limits.
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Why White Tigers Should Go Extinct
Everything you’ve been told about this exotic, royal, endangered species is wrong.
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The Great Schism in the Environmental Movement
Can modern greens loosen nature’s grip on environmentalism?
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Bizarre Weather Around the Solar System
Hurricanes, tornadoes, and sulfuric-acid rain.
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Why Rivers No Longer Burn
The Clean Water Act is one of the greatest successes in environmental law.
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Scientists Ask Blunt Question on Everyone’s Mind
Why Earth and atmospheric scientists are swearing up a storm and getting arrested.
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How Do Porcupines Mate? Very Carefully.
Their stark, night-piercing shrieks aren’t just about the quills.
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Why Are Bigfoot Rumors So Persistent?
Inside the search for North American’s supposed Sasquatch man-ape.
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The Pseudoscience of SkyMall
The suspiciously advanced technology available in your airplane seatback pocket.
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Enjoy a Delicious Dinosaur on Thanksgiving
What, beside humans, ate dinosaurs? Sharks!
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Who Said It: Marco Rubio or Barack Obama?
Willful ignorance of science is a bipartisan value.
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How Did Science, Medicine, and the Environment Do in the Elections?
Your House of Representatives now has twice as many physicists.
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The Civilizing Power of Disaster
Where was all the chaos, looting, and mass-panic during Hurricane Sandy?
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How Other Animals Choose Their Leaders
You think our elections are tough? Tell it to the wolves.
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Sandy’s Toll on Medical Research
Where’s the worst place for an animal lab? In the basement.
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The Artwork That Infuriated Big Coal
Academic and artistic freedom, Wyoming-style.
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Dracula Was the Original Thug
Criminal anthropologists inspired Bram Stoker’s vampire. He did not sparkle.
