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The enigma of George Price: He derived an equation for the evolution of altruism, yet he died believing himself a failed good Samaritan.

When we willingly donate parts of our bodies to science, who should profit?

How much does language tell us what to see, and hence what to think?

How Obama can use the government's purchasing power to spark the clean-energy revolution.

Could the introduction of genetically modified genes into Mexico's landrace corns lead to their extinction?

Video may have killed the radio star, but the vocoder liberates her voice.

In The Age of Wonder, Richard Holmes lucidly charts how the Romantics were as transfixed by the failures of science as they were by its bright accomplishments.

Why has natural selection always been the most contested part of evolutionary theory?

Two new books explore the role of naturalists in the history of conservation movements.

"Bio-prospecting" is unreflective--and unregulated.

Blogs

A new report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says weather around the world is becoming more extreme.

August 8, 2013

A flurry of recent news claims GMOs can save agriculture and raises some concerns.

August 2, 2013

By giving science deniers a public forum, media outlets implicitly condone their claims as legitimate.

July 22, 2013

Mountain top removal is wreaking havoc on Appalachia. There's a bill on the Hill to stop it.

April 22, 2013

An Ohio produce farmer's fields of failed crop point to a problem that goes far beyond her family's losses.

July 30, 2012

Twenty-six years after the Chernobyl disaster, the US media have yet to print the pictures of Chernobyl now.

April 26, 2012

Saying that Republicans want to repeal the twentieth century is too kind.

October 25, 2011

Reed on Republican climate scientists, and readers respond to Bush v. Gore and Obama's tax compromise.

December 16, 2010

What effect does training soldiers to "dehumanize" the enemy have on us? And are video games giving us in some part the same training?  

April 9, 2010

The iPad -- It's very strange. It started arriving in stores April 1 and the reviewers are already calling it a game changer but one aspect of the new device is causing consternation among some.

April 1, 2010
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