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LONGER FORM FEATURES
- Before the Fifth Winter of White Nose Syndrome Wired.com
- Hallucinogens: A Trip to Therapy Proto
- Global Warnings Momentum
- Longevity Research: Is Aging a Disease? Proto
- LEED The Way Stanford Social Innovation Review
SHORTER NEWS & FEATURES
ENVIRONMENT
- Big, Smart and Green: A Revolutionary Vision for Modern Farming Wired.com
- New GM Crops Could Make Superweeds Even Stronger Wired.com
- Why King Corn Wasn’t Ready for the Drought Wired.com
- Controversy Deepens Over Pesticides and Bee Collapse Wired.com
- Record Arctic Snow Loss May Be Prolonging North American Drought Wired.com
- Romney’s Squawking About Birds Is Much Ado About Nothing Wired.com
- Biofuels, Speculation Blamed for Global Food Market Weirdness Wired.com
- A Mud-Loving, Iron-Lunged, Jelly-Eating Ecosystem Savior Wired.com
- Mediterranean Is Scary Laboratory of Ocean Futures Wired.com
- The User’s Guide to Earth Wired.com
- Is Humanity Pushing Earth Past a Tipping Point? Wired.com
ANIMALS
- Should Whales Have Rights? Their Lawyers Say Yes Wired.com
- Why Some Wild Animals Are Becoming Nicer Wired.com
- Traditional Sexual Values Challenged in Classic Animal Study Wired.com
- Rats Free Trapped Friends, Hint at Universal Empathy Wired.com
- Monkeys See Selves in Mirror, Open a Barrel of Questions Wired.com
- Honeybees Might Have Emotions Wired.com
- Blue Whale Song Mystery Baffles Scientists Wired.com
- Free-Range Research Could Save Chimps — and Our Conscience Wired.com
- Sperm Whales May Have Names Wired.com
HEALTH & MEDICINE
- Hepatitis C: The Last Chimpanzee Research Battleground Wired.com
- Experimental Low-Calorie Diet Gets Puzzling Results in Monkeys Wired.com
- Three-Parent Embryos Could Prevent Disease, But Raise Ethical Issues Wired.com
- Swine Flu Ancestor Born on U.S. Factory Farms Wired.com
- Lethal New Virus Outbreak May Be Caused by Man Wired.com
- Lax Security Raises Chances of Mutant-Bird-Flu Catastrophe Wired.com
- Gene Therapy Cures Color-Blind Monkeys Wired.com
- Chemical Burden Adbusters
BIOLOGY
- At the Edge of Invasion, Possible New Rules for Evolution Wired.com
- In the Bowels of Carnivorous Plants, a Tiny Model of the World Wired.com
- Biophysicist Opens Genomic Black Box, Finds Ramen Noodles Wired.com
- A Blueprint for the Human Genome Wired.com
- The Social Lives of Plants Wired.com
- Linux vs. Genome in Network Challenge Wired.com
- The Human Genome in 3 Dimensions Wired.com
- To Understand the Blueprint of Life, Crumple It Wired.com
- Biologists Take Evolution Beyond Darwin — Way Beyond Wired.com
(HUMAN) BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR
- Is Multitasking Bad For Our Brains? NOVA
- The Psychology of Pepper Spraying Wired.com
- How Childhood Neglect Stunts the Brain Wired.com
- Thinking in a Foreign Language Makes Decisions More Rational Wired.com
- Greed Isn’t Good: Wealth Could Make People Unethical Wired.com
TECHNOLOGY
- iPad Textbooks: Reality Less Revolutionary Than Hardware Wired.com
- Paging Dr. Watson: Artificial Intelligence As a Prescription for Health Care Wired.com
- Nanosecond Trading Could Make Markets Go Haywire Wired.com
- Follow the Money Stanford Social Innovation Review
- Open Source for Humanitarian Action Stanford Social Innovation Review
- Between the Lines Proto
- Computer Program Self-Discovers Laws of Physics Wired.com
- Humans No Match for Go Bot Overlords Wired.com
- Cloned Puppies: Sure, They’re Cute, But at What Cost? Wired.com
- Vikram Kumar Nature Medicine
ANTHROPOLOGY
- Evolution of Language Takes Unexpected Turn Wired.com
- Evolution of Fairness Driven by Culture, Not Genes Wired.com
- Altruism’s Bloody Roots Wired.com
- Possible New Human Ancestor Discovered Wired.com
- Bone Crunching Debunks ‘First Monkey’ Ida Fossil Hype Wired.com
- Humanity Has New 4.4 Million-Year-Old Baby Mama Wired.com
GREENCETERA
- The Man Behind the Mangoes Plenty
- More Than Beans Stanford Social Innovation Review
- Sure, We Can Build a Better Toilet. But Will People Use It? Wired.com
- Chinese DNA gives life to an American tree Plenty
PHYSICS
CULTURE
- Making Sense of 7 Billion People Wired.com
- Across Asian Middle America: Bangor, ME Hyphen Magazine
- Christian Theologians Prepare for Extraterrestrial Life Wired.com
- Animals Get Freaky at Museum of Sex Wired.com
- Former Evangelical Minister Has a New Message: Jesus Hearts Darwin Wired.com
