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An Ancient Herbal Remedy
Malcolm Whitman reveals how the blue evergreen hydrangea stops autoimmune disease.
4.27.12
Mysteries of Mate Choice
How personal preferences drive our choice of mates—as understood through an online dating site.
4.27.12
Light-Up Neurons
Harvard researchers create neurons that light up when they fire.
2.17.12
The Art of the Dodge
How people successfully dodge questions and how to prevent them from getting away with it.
2.17.12
The Rise of the Wind Industry
Geoffrey Jones studies America’s forgotten green entrepreneurs.
2.17.12
Tea Party Passions
Theda Skocpol analyzes the politics and demographics of the Tea Party.
12.16.11
A Diabetes Link to Meat
Eating even small amounts of red meat daily increases the risk of diabetes.
12.16.11
The Biology of Right and Wrong
Brains scans reveal that In moral decision-making, people rely on emotion to guide choices in some situations and rationality in others.
12.16.11
How the Web Affects Memory
Psychology professor Daniel Wegner has found that access to information online changes what people remember.
10.19.11
What We Know About Wealth
Harvard Business School professor Michael Norton finds Americans prefer a more equal distribution of wealth.
10.19.11
Life: The Edited Version
George Church has developed tools for large-scale editing of the genome as fast and easy as word processing.
10.19.11
A Bet and a Black Hole
Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics confirm the presence of a black hole in the constellation Cygnus.
10.19.11
The Veil’s Revival
Veils have seen a resurgence among young Muslim women worldwide. Is this a step backward, or a marker of progressive politics?
8.23.11
High-Tech Art Sleuthing
Conservators are using laser-assisted pigment analysis to identify and authenticate the work of modern artists.