Science & Society

  1. Health & Medicine

    Breast cancer costs poor people more

    Out-of-pocket costs of breast cancer hit poor individuals the hardest.

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  2. Life

    Protect biodiversity hot spots and the rest will follow

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  3. Science & Society

    Book Review: Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov’s Quest to End Famine by Gary Paul Nabhan

    Review by Janet Raloff.

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  4. Science & Society

    All in a Day’s Work: Careers Using Science by Megan Sullivan

    NSTA Press, 2008, 140 p., $15.95.

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  5. Science & Society

    Sound reasoning requires statistical understanding

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  6. Science & Society

    It’s time for addiction science to supersede stigma

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  7. Neuroscience

    Breaking the Barrier

    A technique combining ultrasound pulses with microbubbles may help scientists move therapeutic drugs across the brain’s protective divide.

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  8. Psychology

    Undecided voters not so undecided

    A measure of unconscious attitudes predicts the opinions that undecided people eventually reach on a controversial issue.

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  9. Science & Society

    Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science

    An Astronomer Among the American Romantics.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    This trans fat is vindicated

    Featured blog: FDA accords some trans fats a "generally regarded as safe" designation.

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  11. Ecosystems

    Aspiring to Save the Planet

    The failure of the G-8 Summit to put some teeth in greenhouse-gas limits suggests it may be time for a global climate czar.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Animal rights and wrongs

    Featured blog: Some animal-rights activists are taking a page out of the anti-abortionists' playbook and now bully animal researchers at home.

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