Science & Society

  1. Science & Society

    Feedback

    Science policy and sleep get a deeper review.

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  2. Science & Society

    Top 25 stories of 2013, from microbes to meteorites

    This year, careful readers may have noticed a steady accumulation of revelations about the bacterial communities that call the human body home.

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    Best science to see and hear

    Science Studio bills itself as “a collection of the best science multimedia on the web.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Microbiome emerges as a clear breakthrough

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  5. Science & Society

    Heal thy neighbor

    As antidepressants and other drugs gradually replace psychotherapy in the United States, new forms of the talking cure are growing in popularity in developing countries ravaged by civil war and poverty.

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  6. Cosmology

    For proposals that challenge paradigms, peruse arXiv.org

    The online physics archive offers crazy ideas to confront cosmological challenges.

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    Science slowdown

    The recent federal government shutdown, which furloughed more than 800,000 government workers and may have cost the nation as much as $24 billion, has sent ripples through the nation’s scientific research enterprise.

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  8. Science & Society

    Top 10 revolutionary scientific theories

    Quantum theory, game theory and evolution all make the list of history’s paradigm-busting revolutionary scientific theories.

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  9. Science & Society

    Feedback

    Our redesigned cover and the astronomy stories from the Oct. 19 issue get readers' reviews.

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  10. Science & Society

    Replacing paradigms requires open minds

    Cosmological crises require creativity, but science enforces conformity.

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  11. Science & Society

    U.S. science funding sends young people a mixed message

    I think science, and more specifically scientific thinking, is the most powerful tool for understanding the world. Everyone should learn how to think like a scientist.

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  12. Physics

    Top 10 scientific supers

    From supersonic to supernova, superego and supersymmetry, a roundup of science’s super superlatives.

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