BIG Questions – Page 86

U.S. Federal Court Says Stem Cell Treatments Are Drugs
By the Editor on July 27, 2012
A U.S. federal court has found that a stem cell therapy offered by a Colorado clinic meets the definition...
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Planetary Science: The Time Machine
By the Editor on July 27, 2012
Dating features on the Moon and Mars is guesswork. Scott Anderson is building a tool to change that.
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Genetic Data, Fossil Evidence Tell Differing Tales of Human Origins
By the Editor on July 27, 2012
After decades of digging, paleoanthropologists looking for fossilized human bones have established a reasonably clear picture: Modern humans arose...
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Why Do We Keep Going Back to Mars?
By the Editor on July 27, 2012
The huge NASA rover speeding toward an August landing on Mars may be the most capable and complex Red...
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Brain Is Biased When Learning New Information
By the Editor on July 27, 2012
Your brain may be more likely to recognize new things as new when the unknown is already on your...
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Evolving Towards Murder: The Hare, the Tortoise, and the Aurora Madman
By the Editor on July 26, 2012
From David Barash’s post, The Hare, the Tortoise, and the Aurora Madman, in reaction to the tragedy in Colorado,...
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Actinobacteria as the Base of the Evolutionary Tree
By the Editor on July 26, 2012
Ever since Darwin first published The Origin of the Species, scientists have been striving to identify a last universal...
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Innovation for Social Change
By the Editor on July 26, 2012
Innovation researcher Maria Clara Couto Soares calls for a new debate on expanding the reach of grassroots social innovations.
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Brain Sees Men as Whole, Women as Parts
By the Editor on July 26, 2012
A glimpse at the magazine rack in any supermarket checkout line will tell you that women are frequently the...
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Mindfulness Meditation Reduces Loneliness
By the Editor on July 26, 2012
A new study has provided the first evidence that mindfulness meditation reduces loneliness in older adults. The researchers, led...
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