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  1. Challenges to building a disaster-resilient nation

    Comment from David Applegate, chair of the National Science and Technology Council's Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction and senior science adviser for earthquake and geologic hazards at the U.S.Geological Survey.

    By David Applegate
  2. Health & Medicine

    Nabbing suspicious SNPs

    Scientists search the whole genome for clues to common diseases.

    By Regina Nuzzo
  3. Space

    Sizing up black holes

    ST. LOUIS—Astronomers are all wound up over a new method for sizing up supermassive black holes found at the cores of galaxies. The method allows researchers for the first time to estimate the weight of these black holes in spiral galaxies up to 8 billion light-years away, or halfway across the universe, reports Marc Seigar […]

    By Ron Cowen
  4. Health & Medicine

    Thanks for the future memories

    To the brain, remembering the past and visualizing the future look surprisingly similar.