Big Boned: How Your Skeleton Can Make You Fat

Bones help fix themselves by controlling the body's metabolism. 11.23.2007

Climate Change Triggers Bloodshed

Giving a new definition to "cold war" 09.25.2007

The Goldilocks Method for Curing Autism

Combining two bad mutant genes produces neurons that're just right. 08.23.2007

Raw Data: Inside The Oldest Known Star

Astronomers find a star almost as old as the big bang. 07.30.2007

Is Dirt the New Prozac?

Injections of soil bacteria produce serotonin—and happiness—in mice. 06.14.2007

Message in a Bacterium

Researchers use DNA as a post-human time capsule. 06.04.2007

Raw Data: The Ancient Chimp Stone Age

Chimps created tools like humans' over 4,000 years ago. 05.23.2007

Raw Data: Scents and Scents-Ability

Our clumsy noses won't win any sniffing contests, but we can use them to find chocolate. 03.15.2007

Raw Data: A Moon Full of Smust

Smog-and-ethane powder rains on Saturn's giant moon Titan—and covers it in a mile-thick layer. 02.02.2007

Raw Data: Is Cancer the Price of Longevity?

The same protein that prevents cancer may also encourage aging. 12.06.2006

Raw Data: Do Beautiful Parents Have More Daughters?

Natural selection may be driving the beautiful people to have girls. 11.14.2006

Raw Data: Do Magic Mushrooms Make You Mystical?

Apparently, yes. Most volunteers say psilocybin experiences are spiritually significant. 10.13.2006

Raw Data: Do Brothers Make You Gay?

Boys with older brothers are more likely to be gay. But is it nurture or nature? 09.01.2006

Raw Data: The Rigorous Study of the Ancient Mariners

Measuring changes in the Earth's magnetic field. 08.14.2006

Raw Data: When Testosterone Turns Toxic

Can more sex make up for less life? 07.01.2006

Raw Data: Restoring Eyesight to the Blind

06.25.2006

Raw Data: Why Stars Blow Up

A star one second, an exploding supernova the next 05.28.2006

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Placebo vs Placebo 04.27.2006

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