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 | The Top 10 Science Stories of 2010 [Slide Show]
A microbe with an artificial genome, a volcano with an almost unpronounceable name, a disaster that blackened Gulf waters—these and other events defined this year in science and technology
By The Editors | Observations | More Science
 | Why is the north magnetic pole racing toward Siberia?
If the north magnetic pole keeps going it could pass the geographic north pole in a decade or so and carry on toward Siberia. But why?
By John Matson | Features | Mind & Brain
 | Can You Live Forever? Maybe Not--But You Can Have Fun Trying
In this chapter from his new e-book, journalist Carl Zimmer tries to reconcile the visions of techno-immortalists with the exigencies imposed by real-world biology
By Carl Zimmer | Advertisement (Newsletter continues below)
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Nature | Health
Seven-month-old babies can 'read minds'
Babies as young as seven months old may be able to take into account the thoughts and beliefs of other people, according to new research. Called "theory of mind," this ability is central to human cooperation | Bering in Mind | Evolution
 | God's little rabbits: Religious people out-reproduce secular ones by a landslide
What’s that famous quote, by Edna St. Vincent Millay? Oh, yes: "I love humanity but I hate people." It’s a sentiment that captures my normal misanthropically tinged type of humanitarianism well, but it roars apropos on some particular occasions
By Jesse Bering | Observations | More Science
| Readers' choices: Top 10 Scientific American stories of 2010
Here is a list of the stories and features that visitors to our Web site clicked on the most this year. The trends are interactive features, technology, health and the human experience
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News | More Science
 | World's Largest Neutrino Detector Completed at South Pole
With 86 strings of detectors reaching down 2.5 kilometers into Antarctic ice, the IceCube observatory is now finished
By John Matson | Extinction Countdown | Evolution
 | Victory for sharks: U.S. bans shark finning
It won't get the same press as the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, but the U.S. made an important conservation leap recently by banning the deadly practice of shark finning
By John Platt | 60-Second Mind | Mind & Brain
 | The Strongest Predictor for Low Stress
Research from wild baboons provides insight into perhaps the best way to combat daily, psychological stress. During this holiday season it might bring some comfort. Christie Nicholson reports | News | More Science
 | Science of TRON: Getting Up to Speed with Teleportation and Quantum Computing
Physicists give TRON filmmakers the lowdown on how to digitize a person and transport him into a computer game
By Susan Karlin | Scientific American Magazine | Evolution
 | Dawn of the Deed: The Origin of Sex (Preview)
Fish fossils push back the origin of copulation in backboned animals and suggest that it was a key turning point in our evolution
By John A. Long | Mind Matters | Mind & Brain
 | Can't Tickle Yourself? That's a Good Thing
Studies of Tit-For-Tat Games And Links To Delusional Thinking
By Daniel Lametti | Guest Blog | Health
 | I don't have a 28-day menstrual cycle, and neither should you
The frequency of a 28-day cycle in any given woman’s life, in any given month, is pretty low. This contradicts what we learned in health class and sex ed, and sometimes the things girls and women hear from peers, parents, and doctors
By Kathryn Clancy | Observations | Evolution
| Not Neandertal: Genome from fossil fingers a new, recently extinct human
What can be gleaned from a fragment of a 30,000- to 50,000-year-old finger? With highly sensitive genetic sequencing technology, researchers now claim to have spotted a new form of extinct humans that were neither Neandertals nor modern humans
By Katherine Harmon | Cross-check | More Science
 | Science 'faction': Is theoretical physics becoming "softer" than anthropology?
Two recent science stories, one in anthropology and the other in physics, have me wondering which field is "hard" and which "soft"
By John Horgan | Features | Health
 | Interdisciplinary Research Partnerships Set Out to Uncover the Physics of Cancer
Medical researchers are trying a new approach in their decades-long quest to control and cure cancers--they are seeking the help of experts in unrelated fields such as physics, engineering and computer science
By Olivia Koski | Expeditions | Energy & Sustainability
 | Student engineers evaluate their sustainable stove distribution program
Students from Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering are working in Tanzania to help improve sanitation and energy technologies in local villages. This series chronicles work being done by the student-led group, known as Dartmouth Humanitarian Engineering (DHE) [formerly known as Humanitarian Engineering Leadership Projects (HELP)], to design "rocket stoves" in the village of Mwamgongo and top-light updraft design (TLUD) gasification stoves in the village of Kalinzi. The goal is to create a healthier, more energy-efficient cooking apparatus that these villagers will accept and use. DHE students are filing these dispatches from the field during their trip. This is their 20th blog post for Scientific American
By Tim Bolger and Chris White | |
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