2009

December

How Dams Influence Local Climate Patterns | Dec 29, 2009

After Copenhagen, Climate Talks That Will Work | Dec 18, 2009

How Politics Changes Our View of Science | Dec 10, 2009

The Truth About 'Climategate' | Dec 5, 2009

Inside the Battle Over Climate-Change Science | Dec 2, 2009

November

The Case for Skipping Breast Self-Exams | Nov 25, 2009

James Hansen Talks About Climate Change | Nov 24, 2009

The Failure of the Copenhagen Climate Talks | Nov 21, 2009

How to Make Yourself More Creative | Nov 18, 2009

OMG, There's a Credit Card Gene | Nov 11, 2009

Babies' Cries Could Be Early Language | Nov 5, 2009

The Upside of Depression | Nov 2, 2009

October

Why Neanderthals Really Went Extinct | Oct 29, 2009

Our Brains Are Wired for Hypocrisy | Oct 20, 2009

Why a Top Cancer Center Could Save Your Life | Oct 17, 2009

Black CEOs and the Teddy Bear Effect | Oct 15, 2009

The Case for Evidence-Based Medicine | Oct 8, 2009

Why Psychologists Reject Science | Oct 2, 2009

September

Betting on Who Will Win a Nobel Prize This Year | Sep 30, 2009

Copenhagen Climate Talks: Why They May Fail | Sep 23, 2009

How Genes May Be Altered by Experience | Sep 18, 2009

Health-Care Rationing: Why Americans Reject It | Sep 16, 2009

Why Chemicals Called Obesogens May Make You Fat | Sep 11, 2009

Neuroeconomics: Why It Pays to be Nice | Sep 10, 2009

Why Parents may Cause Gender Differences in Kids | Sep 3, 2009

We Already Have Health-Care Rationing in U.S. | Sep 2, 2009

August

The Top-5 Lies About Obama's Health-Care Reform | Aug 29, 2009

Global Warming: China and India Will Suffer Most | Aug 27, 2009

Why We Believe Lies, Even When We Learn the Truth | Aug 25, 2009

New Evidence: Primates Read Human Emotions | Aug 20, 2009

Neuroplasticity May Help Schizophrenics | Aug 18, 2009

The Truth About Obama's Health Plan | Aug 15, 2009

Why Religion May Not Be Hard-Wired | Aug 13, 2009

Get Into Med School and Get Undergrad for Free! | Aug 12, 2009

Amazing Tool Use by Crows in New Video | Aug 7, 2009

How Being Right- (or Left-) Handed Shapes Judgment | Aug 4, 2009

July

Why Studies of Popular Science Are Often Wrong | July 28, 2009

Why Climate-Change is Even Worse Than We Feared | July 24, 2009

Do Genes Affect How You Respond to a Placebo? | July 22, 2009

How Osama Bin Laden Ruined Health Care | July 17, 2009

New Treatment Confounds Alzheimer's Orthodoxy | July 16, 2009

The Link Between Beauty and Grades | July 14, 2009

Why Language May Shape Our Thoughts | July 9, 2009

The Cochrane Collaboration: Fact-Checking Science | July 7, 2009

June

How We Perceive Male and Female Emotions | June 25, 2009

Re-Thinking the Evidence on BPA | June 20, 2009

Can We Blame Our Bad Behavior on Stone-Age Genes? | June 20, 2009

The Math Gender Gap Explained | June 1, 2009

May

Is Our Brain to Blame if We're Not Sociable? | May 28, 2009

How Placebos Really Work | May 21, 2009

Lab Notes: Is the 'Obama Effect' Real? | May 13, 2009

Origami DNA | May 6, 2009

Birds Got Rhythm | May 5, 2009

Promiscuous Blue Tits | May 4, 2009

Botox Warning | May 1, 2009

April

Brain Scan Update: 'Our Aim Was to Educate, Not Accuse' | April 29, 2009

Googling the Flu | April 29, 2009

The Problem With Drug Clinical Trials | April 28, 2009

Brain Imaging and (More) Voodoo, But Politer | April 27, 2009

Saints and Sinners: The Science of Good and Evil | April 25, 2009

How Green Activists Work the System | April 25, 2009

Smackdown! EPA, FDA, and Mercury in Fish | April 24, 2009

The Brains of Early Birds and Night Owls | April 23, 2009

The Blob That Didn't Eat the Universe | April 22, 2009

Sports Drinks: No Swallowing Necessary | April 21, 2009

A Tweeting Brain | April 21, 2009

Kids, Genes and Daycare | April 17, 2009

Here Comes the... Oops: Make That, 'There Goes the Sun' | April 16, 2009

20% Chance of Rain, 100% Chance of Innumeracy | April 15, 2009

R.I.P. John Maddox | April 13, 2009

Sex, Race, and IQ: Off-Limits? | April 11, 2009

Bookshelf: Supersense | April 10, 2009

Quieting That Ringing In the Ears | April 8, 2009

Itchy and Scratchy | April 6, 2009

Q&A: Columnist Tom Friedman on Climate Change | April 4, 2009

Will A Mammogram Save Your Life? | April 1, 2009

The Great UFO Hoax of 2009 | April 1, 2009

March

Cancer Screening: Another View | March 31, 2009

Rx For Poor-Vision: Video Games | March 29, 2009

Early Cancer Detection Fizzles Again | March 28, 2009

'Early' Detection of Cancer Needs to be Even Earlier | March 26, 2009

Genes and Second-Hand Smoke | March 25, 2009

Cold Fusion at 20: Hope Springs Eternal | March 23, 2009

Music Hath Charms Universally | March 20, 2009

Parents Matter: Redux | March 19, 2009

The Math of March Madness | March 17, 2009

It's Good to Be on the 17th Floor | March 16, 2009

Do We Have the Green Technology We Need? | March 14, 2009

Hello Botox, Bye-Bye Anger | March 13, 2009

One Fish, Two Fish, Be Careful Not to Rue Fish | March 12, 2009

Tuna Industry 1, Science 0 | March 12, 2009

1 Chimp + Many Rocks = Duck! | March 10, 2009

How the Recession Is Good for the Environment | March 7, 2009

Too Much Carbon Dioxide? Suck It | March 6, 2009

Antibiotics for Colds, and Other Tales From the Trenches | March 3, 2009

Hubble: The People Have Spoken | March 2, 2009

February

Why Doctors Hate Science | Feb 28, 2009

Extreme Makeover, Mongol Hordes Edition | Feb 27, 2009

Old Age, Old Brain? Maybe Not | Feb 25, 2009

Vaccines and Autism: The Unending Story | Feb 25, 2009

Mom, Dad, DNA and Suicide | Feb 24, 2009

Autism: How Childhood Vaccines Became Villains | Feb 21, 2009

Bookshelf: 'Toxic Truth' | Feb 19, 2009

Why Pundits Are Bad Predictors | Feb 14, 2009

Your Brain on Schadenfreude... Or Not | Feb 12, 2009

For Prostate Cancer, Just Pee? Not So Fast | Feb 11, 2009

"Under the Sea," in 3D | Feb 9, 2009

Technology: Blackberry's Many Distractions | Feb 7, 2009

Color My World: Hues That Enhance Thinkings | Feb 6, 2009

Snakes on a Plane? Try 'as Big as a Plane' | Feb 4, 2009

From 'Sins of our Fathers' to Virtues of the Mothers: Lamarck Won't Go Away | Feb 3, 2009

Human Clones? One Step Closer | Feb 3, 2009

More on Brain Voodoo | Feb 1, 2009

January

Of Voodoo and the Brain | Jan 31, 2009

What Good Are New Brain Cells? | Jan 29, 2009

Space Photos: Vote Early and Often | Jan 28, 2009

Climate Change: Oops, Too Late! | Jan 26, 2009

Here Fido! (Watch Carefully) | Jan 26, 2009

An 'Obama Effect' on Blacks' Test Scores | Jan 23, 2009

Global Warming Goes South | Jan 21, 2009

Childhood Obesity and School Exercise Programs: Not So Fast | Jan 20, 2009

Was Darwin Wrong About Evolution? | Jan 17, 2009

Designer Babies | Jan 15, 2009

Eat Cereal, Have Boys? On Second Thought... | Jan 14, 2009

Zoos on the Chopping Block | Jan 12, 2009

The 'Voodoo' Science of Brain Imaging | Jan 9, 2009

'I Hate it When Black People Do That!' | Jan 8, 2009

The First Americans? Make That the First Two | Jan 8, 2009

Tetris for Trauma | Jan 7, 2009

That Collision You Hear Will Be Andromeda | Jan 6, 2009

Waiter, There's a Bug in My Yogurt! | Jan 6, 2009

Why Scientists Need to Change Their Minds | Jan 3, 2009

Crystal-Ball Time | Jan 1, 2009