The state of the universe.

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• Moon Baseless NASA can't explain why we need a lunar colony.
  Gregg Easterbrook Dec. 8, 2006
  
• The Mystery of Sonar Boy Bats use echolocation. Can people use it, too?
  Daniel Engber Dec. 1, 2006
  
• Thinking in Tongues What can we learn from a babbling brain?
  Daniel Engber Nov. 17, 2006
  
• State of Decay Boston artist Rosamond Purcell repurposes the old, the burnt, and the mangled.
  Amanda Schaffer Nov. 7, 2006
  
• TV Really Might Cause Autism A Slate exclusive: findings from a new Cornell study.
  Gregg Easterbrook Oct. 16, 2006
  
• The Amateur's Revenge Posing as a physicist—and getting away with it.
  Oct. 5, 2006
  
• The Trouble With String Theory It's claptrap, a new book argues.
  Gregg Easterbrook Sept. 14, 2006
  
• A White House Drug Deal Gone Bad Sitting on the negative results of a study of anti-marijuana ads.
  Ryan Grim Sept. 7, 2006
  
• In Search of the Cause of Autism How about television?
  Gregg Easterbrook Sept. 5, 2006
  
• Dammed Memories A Montana river, transformed.
  July 26, 2006
  
• Gimme Nature The bat-eared robot and the boxfish car.
  Amanda Schaffer July 18, 2006
  
• Bigger Smash Hurricanes cause more damage because there's more for them to wreck.
  Gregg Easterbrook June 20, 2006
  
• Spawn of Frankenstein Mad scientists in the movies.
  May 9, 2006
  
• The Mutant Chickens Are Coming! The silliness of bird flu panic.
  Gregg Easterbrook May 8, 2006
  
• What's Really Behind the Plunge in Teen Pregnancy? It's time to look at boys' contributions.
  Liza Mundy May 3, 2006
  
• Kaavya Syndrome The accused Harvard plagiarist doesn't have a photographic memory. No one does.
  Joshua Foer April 27, 2006
  
• Just Check No? A lie college students might want to tell.
  Ryan Grim April 13, 2006
  
• Don't Chew the Wallpaper A history of poison.
  Daniel J. Kevles April 6, 2006
  
• It's the Earth, Stupid NASA's new budget blows it.
  Gregg Easterbrook March 29, 2006
  
• Blowing Smoke Why random drug testing doesn't reduce student drug use.
  Ryan Grim March 21, 2006
  
• Why We're All Jesus' Children Go back a few millenniums, and we've all got the same ancestors.
  Steve Olson March 15, 2006
  
• How African Are You? What genealogical testing can't tell you.
  March 14, 2006
  
• The X-Philes Philosophy meets the real world.
  March 2, 2006
  
• Sun Burst Why it's the wrong time to push for solar power.
  Feb. 22, 2006
  
• The Spy Who Didn't Shag Me How to fool a wiretap.
  Amanda Schaffer Feb. 6, 2006
  
• Galileo Groupies The unlikely rock star of intelligent design.
  Peter Dizikes Feb. 3, 2006
  
• Screen Test Why we should start measuring bias.
  Jay Dixit Jan. 26, 2006
  
• Sorry, Dogs Don't Do Subways Why canine sniffers won't make mass transit safer.
  Amanda Schaffer Jan. 17, 2006
  
• My Brain Is a Walnut Inside an fMRI machine.
  Jan. 10, 2006
  
• Quagga Quest Can we bring back a long-extinct animal?
  Jan. 3, 2006