INSIGHTS - 2007
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The Trouble with Men |
October 2007 issue |
Deadbeat granddads, life-shortening sons and genetically bullying brothers—these are just a few effects revealed in biologist Virpi Lummaa's studies of how evolutionary forces shape later generations
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What Visions in the Dark of Light |
September 2007 issue |
Lene Vestergaard Hau made headlines by slowing light to below highway speed. Now the ringmaster of light can stop it, extinguish it and revive it—and thereby give quantum information a new look
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The Gedanken Experimenter |
August 2007 issue |
In putting teleportation, entanglement and other quantum oddities to the test, physicist Anton Zeilinger hopes to find out just how unreal quantum reality can get
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A Little Privacy, Please |
July 2007 issue |
Computer scientist Latanya Sweeney helps to save confidentiality with "anonymizing" programs, "deidentifiers" and other clever algorithms. Whether they are enough, however, is another question
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Going beyond X and Y |
June 2007 issue |
New genetic studies, Eric Vilain says, should force a rethinking about mixed-sex babies and gender identity
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Prime Directive for the Last Americans |
May 2007 issue |
Saving Amazonia's indigenous peoples means not meeting them, insists Sydney Possuelo--a policy of noninterference he hopes to extend, even if others hate it
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The Science of Lasting Happiness |
April 2007 issue |
Sonja Lyubomirsky, a researcher who looks for the triggers of happiness beyond our genes, thinks that lasting happiness is indeed possible
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Graph Theory and Teatime |
March 2007 issue |
Christian Borgs and Jennifer Chayes head a theory group that pursues some of the most formidable challenges in pure math and theoretical computer science
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Graft and Host, Together Forever |
February 2007 issue |
Transplant pioneer Thomas E. Starzl suspects that a smattering of foreign cells can replace a lifetime of antirejection drugs
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