Aging – See Neuroscience, Alzheimer’s Disease
Airport Screening – See National Security, Psychology
Alzheimer’s Disease
Scientists World-Wide Battle a Narrow View Of Alzheimer's Cause 16 April 2004
Is Alzheimer's Field Blocking Research Into Other Causes? 9 April 2004
Harnessing Stem Cells To Battle Alzheimer's Is at Least Worth a Try 2 July 2004
Fevered Debate Over Alzheimer's Origins Causes Deep Divisions 6 August 2004
Studies on Dementia Often Confuse Causes With Consequences 28 April 2006
Alzheimer's Research Makes Dramatic Shift To Widen Perspective 17 November 2006
Playing Catch-Up After Lost Time In Alzheimer's Labs 24 November 2006
Astronomy, Cosmology & Space Science
Oh, Those Pesky Universal Constants -- They May Be Changing 19 April 2002
Latest Observations Steal the Thunder From Big Bang Theory 26 April 2002
Scientists (Again) Warn `Star Wars' Threatens Safety of Space Orbit 12 July 2002
Shuttle Science: Just Along for the Ride? 3 February 2003
The Hard Question for NASA: Can the Space Station Survive? --- Disaster Highlights a History Of Cost, Control Problems And Ever-Shifting Goals --- Forced to Rely on the Russians By Sharon Begley and Anne Marie Squeo in New York and Guy Chazan in Moscow, 5 February 2003
Do Not Despair: Mysteries of Cosmos Are Not All Solved 11 April 2003
Science's Big Query: What Can We Know, And What Can't We? 30 May 2003
Universe's Big Events May Help Shed Light On the Smallest Ones 21 May 2004
Search for Other Life In Galaxy May Require A Broader Outlook 21 January 2005
Definition of Infinity Expands for Scientists And Mathematicians 29 July 2005
Physicists Are Asking: Are Universe's Traits Random or Inevitable? 16 September 2005
Scientists Revisit Data On Mars With Minds More Open to 'Life' 27 October 2006
Just How Precise Is the Balancing Act That Maintains Life? 1 December 2006
Autism – See Neuroscience
Baseball Physics & Statistics – See Sports Science
Behavioral Biology
Today, Let's Ponder The Less Romantic Aspects of Mating 14 February 2003
In the Brave Guppy And Hyper Octopus, Clues to Personality 10 October 2003
Bold Studies Consider Whether Animals Know What They Don't Know 28 November 2003
Cultures of Animals May Provide Insights Into Human Behavior 7 May 2004
Mellow or Stressed? Mom's Care Can Alter DNA of Her Offspring 16 July 2004
Do the Mating Habits Of Bugs Offer Lessons For Human Valentines? 11 February 2005
The Birds and the Bees Have a Lot to Teach Us -- And Our Valentines 10 February 2006
Buffalo Seek Consensus And Other Tales of How Animals Decide Things 14 April 2006
What Your Pet Is Thinking 27 October 2006
Animals Seem to Have An Inherent Sense Of Fairness and Justice 10 November 2006
Biotechnology –See Molecular Biology & Biotechnology
Brain Imaging – See Neuroscience
Cancer: Causes, Occurrence, Treatment & Prevention
Are Tainted Vaccines Given to Baby Boomers Now Causing Cancer? 19 July 2002
Self-Exams Don't Cut Breast-Cancer Death Risk --- Counterintuitive Findings Fly in Face of Data Linking Early Detection, Outcome 2 October 2002
New Statistics Show Increase In Cancer Rates 16 October 2002
Cancer Cells Appear To Be Unusually Adept At Dodging Therapies 11 July 2003
Therapy Breakthrough: Only Some Cancer Cells Regenerate Tumors 27 February 2004
Why Targeted Drugs To Battle Cancer Fall Short of Promise 10 September 2004
Critics Say Genetic Study Overstated Breast-Cancer Risk 7 January 2005
Fluoridation, Cancer: Did Researchers Ask The Right Questions? 22 July 2005
Early Cancer Detection Doesn't Always Give Patient an Advantage 26 August 2005
The Rush to Biomarker Tests 12 December 2006
Climate Science, Climate Change
Global Warming Means A Possible Big Chill For Northern Regions 7 March 2003
Science May Discover The Hair of the Dog For Pollution Binge 25 July 2003
Is the New York Ice Age In That Summer Movie A Realistic Possibility? 14 May 2004
Hurricane Forecasters Try Model That Focuses On Chances of Landfall 10 June 2005
Man-Made Mistakes Increase Devastation Of `Natural' Disasters 2 September 2005
Scientists Explain How They Attribute Climate-Change Data 12 May 2006
How Melting Glaciers Alter Earth's Surface, Spur Quakes, Volcanoes 9 June 2006
Cloning –See Molecular Biology & Biotechnology
Demography
Single Mothers of Sons Are More Likely to Wed Than Moms of Girls 9 May 2003
Depression – See Mental Health
Diabetes
After Initial Rejection, Scientists Back Work On Cure for Diabetes 24 March 2006
Diet, Nutrition & Health
Sausage or Fresh Fruit? It Might Not Matter At All to Your Genes 23 August 2002
Chubby Blonde? Slim And Dark? Lab Mice Take After Mom's Diet 15 August 2003
Diet During Pregnancy Could Have Effects That Last to Adulthood 22 August 2003
Blame It on Your Mom: Roots of Adult Diseases Trace Back to Womb 17 September 2004
Grandma's Behavior While Pregnant Affects Her Grandkids' Health 13 May 2005
Earth Sciences
Extra: Asteroid Cleared in Dinosaurs' Death 2 March 2004
The Science of Tsunamis --- The Indian Ocean Has Few Of the Early-Warning Systems That Ring the Pacific Ocean 27 December 2004
Tsunami Warnings Would Have Spared Lives, Scientists Say 28 December 2004
Hurricane Forecasters Try Model That Focuses On Chances of Landfall 10 June 2005
Man-Made Mistakes Increase Devastation Of `Natural' Disasters 2 September 2005
How Melting Glaciers Alter Earth's Surface, Spur Quakes, Volcanoes 9 June 2006
Ecology
Don't Be Fooled, Those Nice Plants Are Packing Heat 26 May 2006
Economics
Furry Math? Market Has Failed to Capture True Value of Nature 9 August 2002
Financial Obstacles Help Keep Doctors From Patient Research 2 May 2003
Wealth and Happiness Don't Necessarily Go Hand in Hand 13 August 2004
Educational Psychology
The Best Ways to Make Schoolchildren Learn? We Just Don't Know 10 December 2004
To Improve Education, We Need Clinical Trials To Show What Works 17 December 2004
Real Self-Esteem Builds on Achievement, Not Praise for Slackers 18 April 2003
The Kid Flunked, but He Sure Pays Attention 29 May 2003
Expectations May Alter Outcomes Far More Than We Realize 7 November 2003
Harvard Chief's Words On Innate Differences Lack Basis in Science 28 January 2005
How Nurture Overrides Kids' Nature -- or Why Succotash Model Fails 13 January 2006
Do School Systems Aggravate Differences In Natural Ability? 2 June 2006
That's Not Baby Talk It's Your Kid Testing Her Grasp of Chinese 11 August 2006
You Might Help a Teen Avoid Dumb Behavior By Nurturing Intuition 3 November 2006
Environment/Gene Interactions – See Nature/Nurture
Epistemology
Biologists Hail Dawn Of a New Approach: Don't Shoot the Radio 21 February 2003
Science's Big Query: What Can We Know, And What Can't We? 30 May 2003
Despite Appearances, Science Doesn't Deny The Existence of God 27 January 2006
Evolution
What Distinguishes Us From the Chimps? Actually, Not Much 12 April 2002
Forget That Ape-Man --- Fossils Found in Chad Suggest Less Tidy Human Origins; Was Lucy Just a Great-Aunt? 11 July 2002
Devolution? Not Likely, As Some `Bad' Genes Carry Hidden Treasures 16 August 2002
Evolution Critics Come Under Fire for Flaws In `Intelligent Design' 13 February 2004
A Clue to Why Chimps, People Differ So Much Despite Similar DNA 26 March 2004
Tough Assignment: Teaching Evolution To Fundamentalists 3 December 2004
Yes, Evolution Still Has Unanswered Questions; That's How Science Is 3 June 2005
Two New Discoveries Answer Big Questions In Evolution Theory 7 April 2006
Evolution of Human Behavior
Science Finds Evidence of a Kinder, Smarter Neanderthal --- These Pre-Modern Humans Actually Cared for Their Sick -- Living to the Ripe Old Age of 40 23 April 2002
Math Whizzes Do Excel At Music, but Is Link Merely a Coincidence? 18 June 2004
In Explaining How We Got This Way, Beware Of the Just-So Story 25 June 2004
Mellow or Stressed? Mom's Care Can Alter DNA of Her Offspring 16 July 2004
Vengeance Is Mine, Sayeth the Lord -- But Scientists Differ 15 October 2004
Evolution Psychology May Not Help Explain Our Behavior After All 29 April 2005
Theory Men Are Wired To Kill Straying Mates Is Offensive and Wrong 20 May 2005
Caveman Crooners May Have Helped Early Humans Survive 31 March 2006
Darwin Revisited: Females Don't Always Go for Hottest Mate 5 May 2006
Animals Seem to Have An Inherent Sense Of Fairness and Justice 10 November 2006
Extra-terrestrial Life – See Astronomy, Cosmology & Space Science
Fluoridation
Fluoridation, Cancer: Did Researchers Ask The Right Questions? 22 July 2005
Government Panel Raises Concern About Fluoride --- National Academy of Sciences Calls Current Ceiling Unsafe; Monitoring Your Local Supply 23 March 2006
Forensic Science – See Science & law
Gender & Ability
Expectations May Alter Outcomes Far More Than We Realize 7 November 2003
Harvard Chief's Words On Innate Differences Lack Basis in Science 28 January 2005
Improved Formula: In England, Girls Are Closing Gap With Boys in Math --- Making Class Interactive Has Side Effect: Females Thrive; Echoes of Harvard Debate --- What It Means to Be `Innate' By Jeanne Whalen and Sharon Begley, 30 March 2005
Do School Systems Aggravate Differences In Natural Ability? 2 June 2006
He, Once a She, Offers Own View On Science Spat 13 July 2006
Genetics
What Distinguishes Us From the Chimps? Actually, Not Much 12 April 2002
Devolution? Not Likely, As Some `Bad' Genes Carry Hidden Treasures 16 August 2002
Poisons Aren't Toxic To Everyone Equally, Creating a Dilemma 24 January 2003
Biologists Hail Dawn Of a New Approach: Don't Shoot the Radio 21 February 2003
DNA's Double Helix Isn't So Golden Now, But Happy 50, Anyway 28 February 2003
Just How Many Genes Does It Take to Make A Human? Wanna Bet? 23 May 2003
Scientifically, Race Is Only Skin Deep And Not Very Useful 1 August 2003
Bill Seeking to Ban DNA Discrimination Isn't Really Necessary 6 February 2004
A Clue to Why Chimps, People Differ So Much Despite Similar DNA 26 March 2004
Resurrecting Genes Helps Scientists Learn About Extinct Species 30 April 2004
Math Whizzes Do Excel At Music, but Is Link Merely a Coincidence? 18 June 2004
In Explaining How We Got This Way, Beware Of the Just-So Story 25 June 2004
Mellow or Stressed? Mom's Care Can Alter DNA of Her Offspring 16 July 2004
How a Second, Secret Genetic Code Turns Genes On and Off 23 July 2004
Ancestry Trumps Race In Predicting Efficacy Of Drug Treatments 29 October 2004
Critics Say Genetic Study Overstated Breast-Cancer Risk 7 January 2005
DNA-Disease Links Aren't Always as Real As They First Appear 14 January 2005
Why Gene Therapy Still Hasn't Produced Major Breakthroughs 18 February 2005
Water-Flea Case Shows That Ability to Adapt Is What's Really Innate 22 April 2005
Imprinted Genes Offer Key to Some Diseases -- And to Possible Cures 24 June 2005
Linking DNA Profiles To Diseases May Not Lead to Prevention 4 November 2005
Life Events Thwart Scientists' Attempts To Draw DNA Profiles 7 July 2006
Homosexuality – See Nature/Nurture
Human Genome – See Genetics
Hurricanes – See Climate Science
Intelligence – See Nature/Nurture, Neuroscience, Educational Psychology
Learning —See Educational Psychology
Linguistics
That's Not Baby Talk It's Your Kid Testing Her Grasp of Chinese 11 August 2006
Love, Sex & Mating
Kissing-Cousin Taboo: Can Love Conquer Biological Destiny? 17 May 2002
How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways -- And Other Bad Ideas 6 September 2002
In Love and Jealousy, Men Are From Earth, And So Are Women 4 October 2002
Today, Let's Ponder The Less Romantic Aspects of Mating 14 February 2003
Do the Mating Habits Of Bugs Offer Lessons For Human Valentines? 11 February 2005
The Birds and the Bees Have a Lot to Teach Us -- And Our Valentines 10 February 2006
Darwin Revisited: Females Don't Always Go for Hottest Mate 5 May 2006
Mathematics
Extra Dimensions: They Can't Be Seen, But May Be Measured 24 May 2002
Amaze Your Kids, And Even Yourself, With Some Math Magic 26 July 2002
A Beautiful Science: Getting the Math Right Can Thwart Terrorism 16 May 2003
As the Stakes Increase, Prime-Number Theory Moves Closer to Proof 8 April 2005
Definition of Infinity Expands for Scientists And Mathematicians 29 July 2005
Ever More Relevant, Prime-Number Proofs Chalk Up More Success 3 February 2006
Major Math Problem Is Believed Solved By Reclusive Russian 21 July 2006
Memory
The Memory of Sept. 11 Is Seared in Your Mind; But Is It Really True? 13 September 2002
Eyewitnesses to Crime Are Often Blinded By Shock, Adrenaline 25 October 2002
New Ethical Minefield: Drugs to Boost Memory And Sharpen Attention 1 October 2004
Mental Health
In NIMH Study, Therapy Works As Well as Drugs For Depression 24 May 2002
New Hope for Battling Depression Relapses --- Study Illuminates Why the Benefits Of Therapy Are More Lasting Than Medication 6 January 2004
Parkinson's Study Shows Effects Of Placebo Can Be Quite Real 17 May 2004
Developing Problem: Why Depression Looks Different In a Kid's Brain --- New Studies May Help Explain Links Between Suicide And Antidepressant Use --- The Role of Impulse Control 15 October 2004
A Spotless Mind May Ease Suffering, But Erase Identity 19 August 2005
Some Drugs Work To Treat Depression, But It Isn't Clear How 18 November 2005
Mind & Brain – See Neuroscience
Mind-Body Interactions – See Neuroscience
Molecular Biology & Biotechnology
Eve May Be Offspring Of a Very Long Line Of Science Hoaxes 3 January 2003
Researchers Exploring `What Is Life?' Seek To Create a Living Cell 2 April 2004
Search for Other Life In Galaxy May Require A Broader Outlook 21 January 2005
Now That Chimeras Exist, What if Some Turn Out Too Human? 6 May 2005
National Security
Scientists (Again) Warn `Star Wars' Threatens Safety of Space Orbit 12 July 2002
New Bioterror Models Show Limited Threat From Smallpox Attack 8 November 2002
Likely Suicide Bombers Include Some Profiles You'd Never Suspect 4 April 2003
A Beautiful Science: Getting the Math Right Can Thwart Terrorism 16 May 2003
Alternative Peer Groups May Offer Way to Deter Some Suicide Bombers 8 October 2004
Why Just Detecting Hidden Explosives May Not Cut Deaths 8 July 2005
Simulations of Attacks By Terrorists Illustrate Challenge Officials Face 15 July 2005
Modeling, Simulations Can Help a City Offer More Efficient Exodus 30 September 2005
Why Airport Screeners Sometimes Don't Spot Guns, Knives, Scissors 30 December 2005
Quantitative Analysis Offers Tools to Predict Likely Terrorist Moves 17 February 2006
When Terror Strikes, Liberals and the Right Vote Further Apart 13 October 2006
Natural Disasters – See Earth Sciences
Nature/Nurture
Kissing-Cousin Taboo: Can Love Conquer Biological Destiny? 17 May 2002
The Nature of Nurture: How the Environment Can Shape Our Genes 14 June 2002
Sausage or Fresh Fruit? It Might Not Matter At All to Your Genes 23 August 2002
Genes May Determine Which Abused Kids Will `Grow Up Bad' 20 September 2002
Good Genes Count, But Many Factors Make Up a High IQ 20 June 2003
Chubby Blonde? Slim And Dark? Lab Mice Take After Mom's Diet 15 August 2003
Mellow or Stressed? Mom's Care Can Alter DNA of Her Offspring 16 July 2004
Blame It on Your Mom: Roots of Adult Diseases Trace Back to Womb 17 September 2004
Racism Studies Find Rational Part of Brain Can Override Prejudice 19 November 2004
DNA-Disease Links Aren't Always as Real As They First Appear 14 January 2005
Harvard Chief's Words On Innate Differences Lack Basis in Science 28 January 2005
Improved Formula: In England, Girls Are Closing Gap With Boys in Math --- Making Class Interactive Has Side Effect: Females Thrive; Echoes of Harvard Debate --- What It Means to Be `Innate' By Jeanne Whalen and Sharon Begley, 30 March 2005
Water-Flea Case Shows That Ability to Adapt Is What's Really Innate 22 April 2005
Grandma's Behavior While Pregnant Affects Her Grandkids' Health 13 May 2005
How Nurture Overrides Kids' Nature -- or Why Succotash Model Fails 13 January 2006
Parents Can Counteract `Environments' Created By Children's Genes 24 February 2006
Do School Systems Aggravate Differences In Natural Ability? 2 June 2006
Genes, Not Experience, Explain Why the Lives Of Some Take Bad Turn 16 June 2006
A New Look at Link Between Being Gay And Having Brothers 30 June 2006
Life Events Thwart Scientists' Attempts To Draw DNA Profiles 7 July 2006
Neuroscience
Experiment With Wired Rats Gives Charge to Neuroscience --- Remote Control of `Living Robots' Offers Promise of New Treatments For Paralysis, Rescue Missions 2 May 2002
In the Placebo Debate, New Support for Role Of the Brain in Healing 10 May 2002
So Much for Destiny: Even Thoughts Can Turn Genes `On' and `Off' 21 June 2002
Why George Gershwin May Have Called It `Rhapsody in Blue' 28 June 2002
Follow Your Intuition: The Unconscious You May Be the Wiser Half 30 August 2002
This Is Your Brain; This Is Your Brain On a Surging Stock 15 November 2002
Maybe for This Year, You Can Try Whipping Your Brain Into Shape 10 January 2003
How Humans React When Bad Things Occur Again and Again 7 February 2003
East vs. West: One Sees the Big Picture, The Other Is Focused 28 March 2003
The Kid Flunked, but He Sure Pays Attention 29 May 2003
Good Genes Count, But Many Factors Make Up a High IQ 20 June 2003
New Insights Into Autism --- Growth Spurt of Infant's Head May Be Early Warning Sign, Raising Hope for Intervention 16 July 2003
Dalai Lama and MIT Together Investigate Value of Meditation 19 September 2003
Gesturing as You Talk Can Help You Take A Load Off Your Mind 14 November 2003
Scientists World-Wide Battle a Narrow View Of Alzheimer's Cause 16 April 2004
Is Alzheimer's Field Blocking Research Into Other Causes? 9 April 2004
Parkinson's Study Shows Effects Of Placebo Can Be Quite Real 17 May 2004
Math Whizzes Do Excel At Music, but Is Link Merely a Coincidence? 18 June 2004
Harnessing Stem Cells To Battle Alzheimer's Is at Least Worth a Try 2 July 2004
Fevered Debate Over Alzheimer's Origins Causes Deep Divisions 6 August 2004
New Ethical Minefield: Drugs to Boost Memory And Sharpen Attention 1 October 2004
Brainteasers May Help Researchers Determine What Spurs Creativity 12 November 2004
Racism Studies Find Rational Part of Brain Can Override Prejudice 19 November 2004
Reversing Partial Blindness --- Therapy Aims to `Rewire' Brains of Stroke Victims 1 February 2005
How Mirror Neurons Help Us to Empathize, Really Feel Others' Pain 4 March 2005
While Brain Imaging Offers New Knowledge, It Can Be an Illusion 18 March 2005
Now That Chimeras Exist, What if Some Turn Out Too Human? 6 May 2005
Our Brains Strive To See Only the Good, Leading Some to God 28 October 2005
Turkey, Talk, Family: One More Reason It All Seems Familiar 25 November 2005
Even Old Brains Seem Flexible Enough To Enjoy a Workout 2 December 2005
Old Brains Don't Work That Badly After All, Especially Trained Ones 3 March 2006
All in Your Head? Yes, and Scientists Are Figuring Out Why 17 March 2006
Caveman Crooners May Have Helped Early Humans Survive 31 March 2006
Oops! Mental Training, Crosswords Fail to Slow Decline of Aging Brain 21 April 2006
Studies on Dementia Often Confuse Causes With Consequences 28 April 2006
There May Be More To a Vegetative State Than Science Thought 8 September 2006
How to Keep Your Aging Brain Fit: Aerobics --- Forget Crossword Puzzles -- Study Says 3 Hours of Exercise a Week Can Bolster Memory, Intellect 16 November 2006
A Pentagon Agency Is Looking at Brains -- And Raising Eyebrows 15 December 2006
Nobel Prizes
Nobel Prize Judges Honor Some Greats But Snub Others 17 October 2003
Paleontology
Science Finds Evidence of a Kinder, Smarter Neanderthal --- These Pre-Modern Humans Actually Cared for Their Sick -- Living to the Ripe Old Age of 40 23 April 2002
Forget That Ape-Man --- Fossils Found in Chad Suggest Less Tidy Human Origins; Was Lucy Just a Great-Aunt? 11 July 2002
Extra: Asteroid Cleared in Dinosaurs' Death 2 March 2004
Resurrecting Genes Helps Scientists Learn About Extinct Species 30 April 2004
Two New Discoveries Answer Big Questions In Evolution Theory 7 April 2006
Physics
Oh, Those Pesky Universal Constants -- They May Be Changing 19 April 2002
Envy Microworld Life, Where Things Get Neater as Time Passes 2 August 2002
Can Hermeneutics And Quantum Theory Shape Your Reality? 13 December 2002
Getting Einstein -- Physicists Are Solving Paradoxes of Relativity 8 August 2003
Cold Fusion Isn't Dead, It's Just Withering From Scientific Neglect 5 September 2003
Physicists to Expose Wild and Crazy Side Of Everyday Things 5 March 2004
In Physics, Big Errors Can Get the Ball Rolling Toward Big Discoveries 3 September 2004
Physicists Are Asking: Are Universe's Traits Random or Inevitable? 16 September 2005
Even Scientists Marvel At `Spooky' Behavior Of Separated Objects 14 October 2005
The Magical Behavior Of Subatomic Particles Moves Into Real World 6 January 2006
Scientists Try to Put Right Spin on Quarks To Understand Matter 19 May 2006
Has String Theory Tied Up Better Ideas In Field of Physics? 23 June 2006
Placebo Effect – See Neuroscience
Psychology
Videocameras, Too, Can Lie, or at Least Create Jury Prejudice 31 January 2003
How Humans React When Bad Things Occur Again and Again 7 February 2003
East vs. West: One Sees the Big Picture, The Other Is Focused 28 March 2003
Likely Suicide Bombers Include Some Profiles You'd Never Suspect 4 April 2003
Real Self-Esteem Builds on Achievement, Not Praise for Slackers 18 April 2003
A Beautiful Science: Getting the Math Right Can Thwart Terrorism 16 May 2003
The Kid Flunked, but He Sure Pays Attention 29 May 2003
Is Trauma Debriefing Worse Than Letting Victims Heal Naturally? 12 September 2003
Expectations May Alter Outcomes Far More Than We Realize 7 November 2003
Researchers Seek Roots Of Morality in Biology, With Intriguing Results 11 June 2004
Wealth and Happiness Don't Necessarily Go Hand in Hand 13 August 2004
Alternative Peer Groups May Offer Way to Deter Some Suicide Bombers 8 October 2004
Vengeance Is Mine, Sayeth the Lord -- But Scientists Differ 15 October 2004
Racism Studies Find Rational Part of Brain Can Override Prejudice 19 November 2004
People Believe a `Fact' That Fits Their Views Even if It's Clearly False 4 February 2005
Interrogation Methods Can Elicit Confessions From Innocent People 15 April 2005
Evolution Psychology May Not Help Explain Our Behavior After All 29 April 2005
Theory Men Are Wired To Kill Straying Mates Is Offensive and Wrong 20 May 2005
Why Just Detecting Hidden Explosives May Not Cut Deaths 8 July 2005
For Space Travelers, Logic Seems to Be A Truly Alien Concept 21 October 2005
Why Airport Screeners Sometimes Don't Spot Guns, Knives, Scissors 30 December 2005
All in Your Head? Yes, and Scientists Are Figuring Out Why 17 March 2006
The Key to Peace In Mideast May Be 'Sacred Beliefs' 25 August 2006
When Terror Strikes, Liberals and the Right Vote Further Apart 13 October 2006
Critical Thinking: Part Skill, Part Mindset And Totally Up to You 20 October 2006
Public Health
If We Must Ration Vaccines for a Flu, Who Calls the Shots? 6 October 2006
The Rush to Biomarker Tests 12 December 2006
Quantum Physics – See Physics
Racism – See Neuroscience, nature/Nurture, Psychology
Religion – See Science & Popular Culture
Science & Law
Videocameras, Too, Can Lie, or at Least Create Jury Prejudice 31 January 2003
Inertia, Hope, Morality Score TKOs in Bouts With `Solid Science' 6 June 2003
Ban on `Junk Science' Also Keeps Jurors From Sound Evidence 27 June 2003
Despite Its Reputation, Fingerprint Evidence Isn't Really Infallible 4 June 2004
Interrogation Methods Can Elicit Confessions From Innocent People 15 April 2005
Fingerprint Matches Come Under More Fire As Potentially Fallible 7 October 2005
Science & Politics
Now, Science Panelists Are Picked for Ideology Rather Than Expertise 6 December 2002
Why We Sometimes Get Tofu for President When We Want Beef 14 March 2003
Inertia, Hope, Morality Score TKOs in Bouts With `Solid Science' 6 June 2003
Is Your Radio Too Loud To Hear the Phone? You Messed Up a Poll 12 March 2004
Public-Opinion Polls Diverge Because They Are Still Partly an Art 24 September 2004
People Believe a `Fact' That Fits Their Views Even if It's Clearly False 4 February 2005
While Brain Imaging Offers New Knowledge, It Can Be an Illusion 18 March 2005
Political Scientists Get More Scientific In Studying the Vote 18 August 2006
The Key to Peace In Mideast May Be 'Sacred Beliefs' 25 August 2006
When Terror Strikes, Liberals and the Right Vote Further Apart 13 October 2006
Science & Popular Culture
Santa, You Haven't Changed a Bit! -- And There's a Reason 20 December 2002
Single Mothers of Sons Are More Likely to Wed Than Moms of Girls 9 May 2003
Inertia, Hope, Morality Score TKOs in Bouts With `Solid Science' 6 June 2003
Scientifically, Race Is Only Skin Deep And Not Very Useful 1 August 2003
Racism Studies Find Rational Part of Brain Can Override Prejudice 19 November 2004
Tough Assignment: Teaching Evolution To Fundamentalists 3 December 2004
For Space Travelers, Logic Seems to Be A Truly Alien Concept 21 October 2005
Our Brains Strive To See Only the Good, Leading Some to God 28 October 2005
Despite Appearances, Science Doesn't Deny The Existence of God 27 January 2006
A New Look at Link Between Being Gay And Having Brothers 30 June 2006
He, Once a She, Offers Own View On Science Spat 13 July 2006
What Your Pet Is Thinking 27 October 2006
Science Policy, Ethics, Sociology & Institutions of Science
Case Involving Tests On Newborns Shows Need For Strict Ethics 3 May 2002
Science Breaks Down When Cheaters Think They Won't Be Caught 27 September 2002
Review Boards Pose Threat to Tough Work By Social Scientists 1 November 2002
Can Pesticide Tests On Humans Ever Meet Standards for Ethics? 17 January 2003
White House Seeks Peer-Review Standard For Range of Studies 5 December 2003
A Smaller NIH Budget Means Fewer Scientists And 'Too-Safe' Studies 1 September 2006
New Journals Bet 'Negative Results' Save Time, Money 15 September 2006
NIH Funds 'Pioneers,' But Award May Not Help Study Shortfalls 8 December 2006
Sexual Orientation – See Nature/Nurture
“Shortages” of Scientists and Engineers
As We Lose Engineers, Who Will Take Us Into the Future? 7 June 2002
Angry Engineers Blame Shortage on Low Pay, Layoffs and Age Bias 5 July 2002
Slim Pickings -- Behind `Shortage' of Engineers: Employers Grow More Choosy --- Job Hunters Face Long Lists Of Requirements as Web Brings Flood of Resumes --- Two Hires From 158 Applicants 16 November 2005
A Smaller NIH Budget Means Fewer Scientists And 'Too-Safe' Studies 1 September 2006
Societal Benefits of Research
Physician-Researchers Needed to Move Cures Out of the Rat's Cage 25 April 2003
Financial Obstacles Help Keep Doctors From Patient Research 2 May 2003
Too Many Patients Never Reap Benefits Of Great Research 26 September 2003
Why Gene Therapy Still Hasn't Produced Major Breakthroughs 18 February 2005
Imprinted Genes Offer Key to Some Diseases -- And to Possible Cures 24 June 2005
Linking DNA Profiles To Diseases May Not Lead to Prevention 4 November 2005
Sports Science
Pigskin Overtime Rules And Beaned Batters Spur Math Theorems 9 January 2004
Why Hitting Curveballs Scores More Homers; How Pedro Proves Rule 28 May 2004
What Stats Reveal (Or Don't Reveal) About Barry Bonds 14 July 2006
Terrorism – See National Security
Toxicology
Poisons Aren't Toxic To Everyone Equally, Creating a Dilemma 24 January 2003
Scientists Revisit Idea That a Little Poison Could Be Beneficial 19 December 2003
Traffic
Now There's Proof -- You're in a Traffic Jam For No Good Reason 3 October 2003
Readers Take a Stab At Tips for Traffic -- Many Are Illusions 24 October 2003
A Few Cars Controlled By Computer Can Keep Rest of Traffic Flowing 30 July 2004
How Brief Drop in Cars Can Trigger Tie-Ups, And Other Traffic Tales 1 July 2005
Modeling, Simulations Can Help a City Offer More Efficient Exodus 30 September 2005
Tusnamis – See Earth Sciences
Why Research Hasn’t Cured Most Diseases – See Societal Benefits of Research