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Is race-based medicine a boon or boondoggle?
Recent research in psychology points to secrets of effective leadership that radically challenge conventional wisdom
Biologist Virpi Lummaa's work reveals that humans may be the best subject to study for evolutionary effects across generations
Institutions step up fight against attacks on theory of evolution
Scientists may have turned mouse skin cells into embryolike stem cells, but prior claims for the power of adult cells have yet to stand the test of time
The blue whale is big, but nowhere near as huge as a sprawling fungus in eastern Oregon
Is the so-called "Mozart effect" a scientifically supported, developmental leg up or a media-fueled "scientific legend"?
Unless you are an Indonesian fruit bat, though, it probably won't happen naturally
There is a reason cats prefer meaty wet food to dry kibble, and disdain sugar entirely
Does nature's proclivity to nurture override its flight mechanism?
Two leading neuroscientists, Christof Koch and Susan Greenfield, disagree about the activity that
takes place in the brain during subjective experience
Neuroimaging reveals a shared basis for chocoholia and drug addiction
An astonishingly sensitive detector of electric fields helps sharks zero in on prey
Once scorned as nervous tics, certain tiny, unconscious flicks of the eyes now turn out to underpin much of our ability to see. These movements may even re?veal subliminal thoughts
Two prominent defenders of science exchange their views on how scientists ought to approach religion and its followers
Ni hao or bonjour: do genes drive preference for language type?
Seeing if the public is ready for personal genetic information
A plan moves ahead to reconstruct East Germanys shredded secret police files
A genetic census of the ocean's primary predators
Protein may be a key to autoimmune disorders
How did the great apes get to be so smart?
Three books try to explain consciousness
How sudden shifts in climate may have boosted human ingenuity
The political outcomes of biotechnology
Thanks to Matt Ridley, the human genome now has its own autobiography
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
Babies born with mixed sex organs often get immediate surgery. New genetic studies, Eric Vilain says, should force a rethinking about sex assignment and gender identity.
Last fall Robert Klein got Californians to vote for embryonic stem cell work. That was a piece of cake compared with getting the resulting research agency off the ground
The notion of the Y sex chromosome as a genetic wasteland still entices biologists. David C. Page has spent a good part of his career knocking down that myth
Not much at the moment, thinks biologist Kevin de Queiroz, but names could be made to reflect our modern understanding of life's origins and complexity