Storks, Vaccines and Causation
The apparent connection between vaccines and autism didn't reveal much about medical safety but did reveal lots about thinking.
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Maximum Disclosure, Minimum Delay
Climategate and some other high-profile, if ultimately rare, scientific embarrassments lead academics to study transparency.
The Brain That Gave Us ‘Purple Haze’
A psychologist argues the enormous creativity of guitarist Jimi Hendrix can be traced to the high level of integration between his brain’s two hemispheres.
Social Scientists Under Fire
How anthropology and other social sciences are transforming the American way of war in Afghanistan.
I See a Quake in Your Future. Sometime.
A lucid look at decades of failed attempts to reach seismology's Holy Grail: the precise prediction of when earthquakes will occur.
Bee Healthy for Your Honey
Explanations for honeybee colony collapse range from artificial sweeteners to loss of cropland, but solutions may be on offer.
Teaching an Old Immune System New Tricks
Researchers have found a protein that may be the immune system's fountain of youth.
Pictures From a Poster Session
To engineers, every problem is just a solution that hasn't occurred yet, our Michael Haederle learns at the El Paso innovation conference.
Snowmaggedon Backs All Climate Change Views
Freakish snowstorms warm the hearts of both believers and skeptics of global warm ... err ... climate change.
Changing the Equations for Carbon, Biomedicine
Reporting from the El Paso innovation conference, our Michael Haederle explains how a toy frog may have hopped over some biomedical manufacturing obstacles.