When it comes to complex behaviors, gene variants don't count for much
By Evan Charney and William English | Nov 5, 2012 | 8
Inoculating kids is the best way to protect everyone from flu. Why don't we do it?
By Kathleen A. Ryan | Oct 2, 2012 | 11
Teachers need a trusted source to tell fads and fallacies from proved methods
By Daniel T. Willingham | Aug 22, 2012 | 22
Intense competition among scientists has led to abuses. Is there a better way?
By Ferric C. Fang and Arturo Casadevall | Jul 25, 2012 | 9
Jul 20, 2012
Mobile devices have the potential to become powerful medical tools
By Francis Collins | Jul 10, 2012 | 7
The most worrisome scenario would be for it to “sneak out”
By Graham T. Allison | May 30, 2012 | 43
International diversity is just as important as diversity of discipline when it comes to scientific discovery
By Alice P. Gast | May 9, 2012 | 7
An impenetrable mountain of facts can obscure the deeper questions
By Stuart Firestein | Mar 28, 2012 | 39
The key to reviving manufacturing in the U.S. may lie in the nation's supercomputers
By Donald Q. Lamb | Mar 9, 2012 | 13
The NIH may be biased in ways that harm not only African-American researchers but any whose ideas fall outside the mainstream
By David Kaplan | Feb 9, 2012 | 21
The southwestern U.S. looks a lot like Australia before its nine-year dry spell
By Peter H. Gleick and Matthew Heberger | Jan 5, 2012 | 45
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