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September 29, 2014
Mark Oppenheimer
This Book Empathizes With Anti-Vaxxers, Who Don't Deserve Empathy
September 26, 2014
Jesse Singal
Study: Videos of Police Violence Might Worsen People's Biases
September 19, 2014
Alice Robb
Ebola Is Spreading Way Faster Than Anyone Predicted
September 19, 2014
Alice Robb
The Duck Penis Paradox
Is too much Internet pop science drowning out the serious stuff?
September 19, 2014
Molly Mirhashem
How a Bogus Scientific Study Becomes Internet Fact
Clenching your fists helps you remember ... or does it?
September 14, 2014
Molly Mirhashem
Engineers Created This Soft Pink Robot to Save You in a Fire
September 12, 2014
Alice Robb
This Is What It Will Look Like When Robots Take All Our Jobs
September 8, 2014
Rotem Ben-Shachar
Women Don't Stick with the Sciences. Here's Why.
At each stage of their careers, more women than men leave the most prestigious path
August 30, 2014
Leo Robson
How Scientists Captured the Brains of Amis and McEwan
August 28, 2014
Alice Robb
Kids Are Exposed to More Fat Shaming on TV Than Adults
Animated shows are the worst offenders
August 18, 2014
Judith Shulevitz
Geneticists' New Obsession with Pregnancy Isn't Bad for Women
How epigenetics can bolster feminism
August 15, 2014
Lisa Appignanesi
Can Science Offer New Answers to Mental Illness?
August 2, 2014
Ian Steadman
Russia Had a Really Good Reason For Its Gecko Orgy in Space
July 30, 2014
Taylor Malmsheimer
Skin Cancer Is Skyrocketing in America—and Men Have It Worse
July 28, 2014
Judith Shulevitz
Science Is Changing What It Means to Be Dead
If you could freeze yourself until a future age, are you sure you'd want to?
July 25, 2014
Michael Brooks
Men Can Be Just as "Maternal" As Women, According to Neuroscience
July 18, 2014
Harold Pollack
AIDS Researcher Who Died in Malaysia Airlines Crash Was A Scientific Hero
July 17, 2014
Alice Robb
Venus the “Chimera" Cat Is Probably Not a Real Chimera
A geneticist explains the cat's funny fur
July 15, 2014
Sam Kleiner
Right-Wing Xenophobes Are Spreading Lies About Migrant Diseases
Welcome to the latest chapter in America's long, ugly history of nativism
July 11, 2014
Carlo Rovelli
Science Is Not About Certainty
The separation of science and the humanities is relatively new—and detrimental to both

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