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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.