Their discovery links two of the deadliest pandemics in history
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The Most Important Brain in the History of Neuroscience
In his forthcoming book The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons, Sam Kean details the surprising history of the human brain. A look at how one royal mind opened the door for all of science to come
Second Code Uncovered Inside the DNA
Discovery deepens our understanding of the human genome
Scientific Panel: Global Warming Threatens Society, Warning System Needed
Mass plant and animal extinction a risk, coral reefs could already be doomed
The Woman With No Memory
Lonni Sue Johnson, 63, is an artist suffering profound amnesia after a nearly fatal battle with encephalitis in 2007. The disease destroyed her hippocampus, wiping out most of her old memories, as well as her brain’s ability to …
Nobel Medicine Prize Winners Announced
Honor awarded to scientists from Yale, UC Berkley and Stanford for research into cellular transport
New Element 115 Takes a Seat at the Periodic Table
Scientists create a very heavy atom with a very short life span
Drill, Baby, Drill: Russian Scientists Reach a Massive Underground Lake
If life were a Michael Bay movie, the moment this week when Russian scientists finally drilled into the subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica would immediately be followed by the sudden and frightening appearance of unfrozen …
Scientists: We Want More Children
We Ecocentric writers have the privilege of constant exposure to the most cutting-edge science research around – we’ve written about sexy birds, Arctic oil, paper solar panels, and countless other incarnations of the weird and wonderful. But sometimes it’s easy to overlook the hardworking folks behind these discoveries, and it …
Sticker Shock: What Extreme Weather Costs the U.S.
It’s not hard to imagine the damage weird weather inflicts on our planet. Hurricane Katrina, for example, obliterated coastal communities, wiped out businesses and left hundreds of dead bodies in its wake. Quantifying the cost of such a one-off (we hope) event is pretty easy too: Katrina left us with a bill of $81 billion, …