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The Top 10 ScienceNOW Stories of 2012
At the end of every December, ScienceNOW takes a look back at some of its favorite stories of the...
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Jared Diamond’s Tales From the World Before Yesterday
From John Brockman at Edge.org: Over the years I’ve had the privilege to work with some of the more...
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Did Lucy Walk, Climb, or Both?
Much has been made of our ancestors “coming down out of the trees,” and many researchers view terrestrial bipedalism...
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Climate Science Makes an Eleventh-Hour Comeback
This was the year climate change vanished from the political agenda – and then suddenly reappeared, after Hurricane Sandy...
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Space Radiation May Accelerate Alzheimer’s in Astronauts
Radiation in space might harm the brains of astronauts in deep space by accelerating the development of Alzheimer’s disease,...
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New Kind of Magnetism Discovered
Following up on earlier theoretical predictions, MIT researchers have now demonstrated experimentally the existence of a fundamentally new kind...
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Extraterrestrial Oceans Could Host Life
NASA’s battle cry behind the small armada of orbiters, landers and rovers dispatched to Mars is “follow the water!”...
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Build the Death Star
Well, it’s taken 80 years, but the post–New Deal, post-military-industrial-complex mega-state has finally come up with a single good...
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Tablet as Teacher: Poor Ethiopian Kids Learn ABCs
Using 20 tablet computers dropped off in their Ethiopian village in February by a group called One Laptop Per...
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Faith-Based Procrastination: Religious Job Bias in Taxpayer-Funded Program
No American should be denied a taxpayer-funded job because of what he or she believes about religion. Yet that’s...