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  1. Trawling the brain

    New findings raise questions about reliability of fMRI as gauge of neural activity.

    By Laura Sanders

  2. Humans wonder, anybody home?

    Brain structure and circuitry offer clues to consciousness in nonmammals.

    By Susan Gaidos

  3. A black future

    Without destroying the Earth, the Large Hadron Collider might help humans explore the cosmos.

    By Tom Siegfried

  4. Funding science research as a sustained enterprise

    At the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in October in Chicago, NIH Director Francis S. Collins discussed NIH funding and answered questions from reporters, including Science News writers Tina Hesman Saey and Laura Sanders.

    By Francis Collins

  5. Science Past from the issue of December 19, 1959

    LOW-MELTING ELEMENTS MAKE HIGH HEAT MATERIAL — Two chemical elements, both of which will melt in the sun on a hot day, have been combined to produce a material capable of withstanding temperatures up to 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit.