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  1. Neuroscience

    White House gives progress report on BRAIN Initiative

    More pieces of President Obama’s ambitious BRAIN Initiative announced April 2013 have fallen into place.

  2. Health & Medicine

    Ebola case identified in Dallas

    The first case of Ebola to be diagnosed in the United States was announced September 30 in Texas.

  3. Planetary Science

    Feedback

    Readers discuss sources of stress in everyday life and tell us what they think about NASA's plan to nab an asteroid.

  4. Health & Medicine

    Obama takes aim at antibiotic resistance

    The White House offers an incentive for better diagnostics and calls for new meds and more stewardship programs against antibiotic resistance.

  5. Tech

    Long after JFK assassination, gunshot forensics still limited

    The Warren Commission Report included the results of a neutron activation analysis test of Lee Harvey Oswald. But even that high-tech analysis can't distinguish the type of weapon fired.

  6. Science & Society

    World population may reach 12.3 billion in 2100

    The number of people on the planet is likely to keep rising over the next century.

  7. Climate

    Greenhouse gases reached new records in 2013

    Levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rose more last year than any other year since 1984, according to a September 9 report by the World Meteorological Organization.

  8. Materials Science

    Buckyballs, diamonds inspire new synthetic molecule

    Hitching a hollow ball of carbon to a diamond-shaped lattice yields a useful piece of electrical circuitry.

  9. Health & Medicine

    Test Ebola treatments to be rushed to West Africa

    The World Health Organization has announced that it will use test treatments in West Africa starting this fall.

  10. Earth

    Feedback

    Readers discuss Tibetan genetics, how Saharan dust built the Bahamas and why people don't like being left alone with their thoughts.

  11. Astronomy

    Pleiades star cluster is a bit farther away than thought

    New observations might impact Gaia satellite’s mission to map the Milky Way.

  12. Materials Science

    Greener water splitter for hydrogen fuel designed

    A new gadget that runs on a single AAA battery might truly reduce the carbon emissions from hydrogen fuel cell production down to zero.