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4 Sports Injuries That Are Pushing the Envelope of Modern Medicine

09.26.2011 With so much on the line, athletes are willing to try new treatments that may be groundbreaking cures or just elaborate placebos.

by Mara Grunbaum

Helped by Hops, Discourse by Dance, and Reign by Royalactin

Bees have amazingly complicated social structures and behaviors, and are critical for a lot of agriculture. Hopefully not all of their colonies will collapse... 08.10.2011

A Giant Iron Core, A Scalding Surface, and Strange Ice Caps

NASA’s Messenger spacecraft recently completed a seven-year journey and settled into orbit  around Mercury. Over the next year Messenger will capture 75,000 images of the sun’s nearest neighbor and help scientists understand the planet’s many intriguing quirks. 07.24.2011