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  1. Science & Society

    Science needs a kick to take advantage of the generosity of crowds

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  2. Earth

    When studying a monster volcano, poke softly with a sensitive stick

    By Alexandra Witze

  3. New research on Native American origins takes anthropologists down memory lane

    In school we learn that science proceeds logically from one experiment to the next, leaving in its wake a complete and certain body of knowledge. But science isn’t like that. It twists and turns, careens and tumbles and gets stuck in deep, sticky mudholes. And sometimes, science backtracks. That’s happened in cosmology recently, as observations […]

    By Matt Crenson
  4. Science & Society

    There’s nothing special about thinking that kids think they’re extra special

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  5. Neuroscience

    When evaluating textbook dogmas about the brain, keep an open mind

    When evaluating textbook dogmas about the brain, keep an open mind.

    By Tom Siegfried
  6. Neuroscience

    fMRI’s birthday lesson: Don’t ignore weird things you don’t understand

    By Laura Sanders
  7. Earth

    Earth scientists think it’s time to sync their geological clocks

    By Alexandra Witze
  8. Anthropology

    Scientists can’t decide if shoulders of giants were broader or just better organized

    By Matt Crenson
  9. Physics

    With discovery of the Higgs, science can celebrate math’s power to probe nature

    By Tom Siegfried
  10. Science & Society

    Movie heists notwithstanding, when crime does pay, it’s not very much

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  11. Physics

    Bubble universes give new perspective to time’s origin and its arrow

    By Tom Siegfried
  12. Earth

    Geologists play with puzzles about past and future supercontinents

    By Alexandra Witze