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Uprising: Winner of the 2013 AAAS Kavli award for online science journalism
Creating a moral panic about social media didn’t protect teens—it left them vulnerable
Chinese clinics are touting “miracle” stem cell cures—and they’re making millions off sick children.
Why does the researcher who pioneered the study of lucid dreaming face a future in academic exile?
Does that commercial DNA test you just bought violate somebody else’s privacy?
Thousands of cameras, millions of photographs, terabytes of data. You’re tracked, wherever you go.
Michael Levin wants to help people regrow lost limbs. Now he could be on the verge of a breakthrough.
Bad Blood: The mysterious life and brutal death of a Russian dissident
Autism changed Henry Markram’s family. Now his Intense World theory could transform our understanding of the condition.
How high-tech implants are being blamed for killing an entire subculture.
A new disease is plaguing thousands, but experts are in conflict over its origins—and whether it exists at all.
And he’s not the only one.
America’s largest industrial accident tore apart the town of Kingston, Tennessee. Five years later, has the industry learned anything?
How a rebel psychologist challenged one of the 20th century’s biggest—and most dangerous—ideas
Do we have to live in a world of fictions, falsehoods and figments?
It’s time to rethink our nightmares about surveillance.
How Iran’s explosive expansion warns us about our overpopulated future —and shows us how to fix it.
Designing your own narcotics online isn’t just easy—it can be legal too. How do we know? We did it.
Why everyone from the Mormons to the Muslim Brotherhood is desperate for a piece of the Pharaoh
Some people live far longer than others. If you could find out how, would you bottle it?
Olivia Fox Cabane says she can make anyone more likable—for a price. But can charisma really be taught?
Forget what you’ve heard about guns and drugs. Scientists now believe that the roots of crime may lie deep within our biology.
Some of America’s poorest people are being targeted by cyber-scammers. Can an errant hacker find the culprits?
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