Nearly 100,000 people die every year from bugs that they pick up in health care facilities; experts say most of these infections are preventable
The new book Red Moon Rising chronicles the early days of the Russian-American space race
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Limiting climate change without damaging the world economy depends on stronger and smarter market signals to regulate carbon dioxide
Forget Mars -- there are plenty of more important goals we should be pursuing in space.
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Appearing in the October, 1957 edition of Scientific American, this article is an early mention of a phenomenon that would come to be known as "white flight."
America prepares for the next lunar missions
Your first encounter with "better" living through nanotechnology may be your sunscreen
Like some kind of techno-utopian Johnny Appleseed, a start-up called Meraki wants to cover the earth with ad hoc Wi-Fi networks
As the nation braces for an active hurricane season, private insurers jump ship, leaving federal and state governments liable for ever increasing payouts
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
In a post-9/11 world, where security demands are high, personal privacy does not have to be sacrificed, says computer scientist Latanya Sweeney, who discusses a few ways to save it.
Like a tinfoil hat for your house, new technology promises to block hackers' access to your wireless transmissions—and protect against EMP attacks and explosions, to boot
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
Mars and Its Canals. By Percival Lowell. Illustrated. The Macmillan Company. New York and London, 1907. Octavo. Pp. 393.
North America is fine for rewilding but Europe may be a better candidate thanks to close living relatives of its extinct megafauna
Eric Vilain discusses the biology and politics of mixed-sex individuals, arguing that terms such as "hermaphrodite" and "intersex" are vague and hurtful.
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