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April 2014

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April 30
- USDA Wildlife Services Should End Indiscriminate Killing (Op-Ed)
- Households Are New Source of Antibiotic-Resistant Superbug
- Powdered Alcohol, Seriously? A Health Risk We Don't Need (Op-Ed)
- Sustainable Ranching: Where Cows and Capybara Roam (Op-Ed)
- Is America Now an Oligarchy Nation? (Op-Ed)
April 29
- Can Evolutionary Biology Reveal What's Kinky? (Op-Ed)
- Fight Against Rheumatoid Arthritis May Unlock Secrets to Heart Disease and Depression (Op-Ed)
- The Changing Colors of the Universe
- Pause in Global Warming Comes Served With Unwelcome Side Dishes (Op-Ed)
April 28
- Polar Bear Monitoring More Crucial as Ice Dwindles (Op-Ed)
April 27
- Move Over Exoplanets, Exomoons May Harbour Life Too
April 26
- Powdered Alcohol and Space Diapers have Something in Common
- When the Sun Blinked: 1994's Solar Eclipse (Op-Ed)
- The Power of Hashtag: Using Social Media to Raise Awareness (Op-Ed)
- We Need a Global Conservation Agreement for the High Seas (Op-Ed)
- Explainer: How Do Homing Pigeons Navigate?
- Habitable Exoplanets are Bad News for Humanity (Op-Ed)
April 25
- Why Captain America’s Shield Is Basically a Star-Spangled Supercapacitor (Op-Ed)
- Food Additives 'Generally Recognized As Safe" Could Be Anything But (Op-Ed)
- Ginseng Could Be An Effective Way to Prevent the Flu (Op-Ed)
- Life on Us: A Close-Up Look at the Bugs That Call Us Home (Op-Ed)
- US Leading the Path to Mars: NASA Chief Charles Bolden (Op-Ed)
April 24
- Improve the Food, Not Just the Food Label (Op-Ed)
- VIDEO: Solving the World's Toilet Shortage
- Overcoming the Water Wars (Op-Ed)
- Why Adopting an Older Pet Makes Sense (Op-Ed)
- Zoos, Aquariums and Their Visitors Are Critical Advocates for Conservation (Op-Ed)
April 23
- The Truth About Marijuana: Health Risks Trivialized (Op-Ed)
- Preventing Injury From Spring Sports That Span Seasons
- Dutch Student Sells His Data for €350 but at What Price Privacy? (Op-Ed)
- With a Bullet: China's High-Speed Rail Dream Begins to take Flight (Op-Ed)
April 22
- The Costs of Fresh Water in a Changing World (Op-Ed)
- Vulnerable Dusky Sharks Decimated by Fishing (Op-Ed)
- Education and Explosions, Alloys and Animation: Q+A With Ainissa Ramirez
- The Toy Thing: It Was Never About Pink or Blue (Op-Ed)
- Eight Energy-Saving Tips to Make Every Day Earth Day
- Study of Motion Sheds New Light on Autism and The Brain
- Health Check: When is 'The Flu' Really a Cold?
April 20
- Russia, Ukraine, and Europe are Tied by Gas Dependency
- 7 Things You Need To Know About Cancer
- Searching Underwater for MH370 is a Shot in the Dark (Op-Ed)
- Searching High and Low for Dark Matter (Q+A)
April 19
- Science Suggests 'The Dog' Doesn't Exist (Op-Ed)
- Beware the Lure of the Bunnies (Op-Ed)
- Kindle vs. Books? Children Just Don't See It That Way (Op-Ed)
- Australian Endangered Species: Largetooth Sawfish
- The Easter Bunny Tale: Fun Fiction or Harmful Myth? (Op-Ed)
April 18
- Katherine Tallmadge: Responding to Rush Limbaugh Attacks on Obesity (Op-Ed)
- Is Global Warming a Giant Natural Fluctuation? (Op-Ed)
April 17
- Defining the 'Waters of the United States' (Op-Ed)
- How to Test the Twin Paradox Without Using a Spaceship (Op-Ed)
- There's No Debate: Lowering Salt Cuts Strokes and Heart Attacks (Op-Ed)
- Peptide Power: The Science Behind the 30-second Phone Charger (Op-Ed)
April 16
- Capturing the 2000 Lunar Eclipse from 'Hell on Ice'
- 'LIGO: A Passion for Understanding' — The Minds Behind the Film
- Crater Creator Uses Explosions to Find the Secrets of Volcanoes (Op-Ed)
- Can Science Eliminate Extreme Poverty? (Op-Ed)
April 13
- Death Isn’t Taboo, We’re Just Not Encouraged To Talk About It (Op-Ed)
April 12
- The Black Box: An Australian Invention That Nearly Didn't Happen
- 'LIGO, A Passion for Understanding': Documentary Film Complete Coverage
- Thinking About Death Can Make You Value Life More
- Don't Panic About Heartbleed but Have a Spring Clean Anyway (Op-Ed)
- What the Heck is Gastroschisis?
- What Science Communicators Can Learn from Listening to People (Op-Ed)
April 11
- Drug Shortages Threaten US Anti-TB Efforts (Op-Ed)
- Diagnosis: Broken Medical System. Cure: Complicated (Op-Ed)
- Aurora at Moonlight
- With Money to be Made, Wind Power Booms in Oil-Rich Texas (Op-Ed)
- Fat and Fit? There's No Such Thing for Most People (Op-Ed)
- A Complex Cocktail: Alcohol, Sex and Cute Monogamous Mammals (Op-Ed)
April 10
- Memo to Congress: Protect Public Health, Not Toxic Chemicals (Op-Ed)
- The Poop Problem: What To Do With 10 Million Tons of Dog Waste (Op-Ed)
- The Science of Anatomy is Undergoing a Revival (Op-Ed)
- Antipsychotic Drugs Harm Older People, Let's Reduce Their Use (Op-Ed)
- Baidu's Perfect Paradox: Free Speech and the Right to Censor (Op-Ed)
April 9
- Panda Sutra – the Ups and Downs of Getting Grumpy Bears to Have Sex
- How to Turn Three Pings into Results in the Hunt for MH370 (Op-Ed)
- Wizard of Odds or Even Steven? The Science of Gambling Fallacies (Op-Ed)
- Science Guy Bill Nye Explores Life's Meaning in 5 Minutes (VIDEO)
- God and the Gay Christian (Op-Ed)
April 8
- My Horse's Death and the Life of a 'Tennessee Walker' (Op-Ed)
- Decoding Music's Resonance: Researcher and Performer Parag Chordia (Op-Ed)
- Medicine Men, Machetes and Centuries of Healing (Op-Ed)
- Wearable Electronic Skin Delivers Drugs and Stores Data
- Ancient Viruses Sound Scary, but There's No Need to Panic (Op-Ed)
- Europe Votes for a 'Neutral Net' ... but What Does That Mean? (Op-Ed)
April 7
- Predicting Mars Cuisine: Grasshoppers with a Side of Fungi (Op-Ed)
- Threats and Hate Mail Reveal Climate Disinformation's Dark Side (Op-Ed)
April 5
- Do Dogs Really Feel Guilt or Shame? (Op-Ed)
- Tar Washing Ashore Shows Gulf Coast Not Back to Normal (Op-Ed)
- End of the Hemlocks, a Lament (Op-Ed)
April 3
- New Whale Stranding Is Painful Evidence for Naval Sonar Risks (Op-Ed)
April 2
- Why the Wealthiest 1 Percent Are So Much Richer Than You (Op-Ed)
- Capturing Venus: An Amateur Astronomer's Famous Moon Shot
- Dance Me To The End Of Time and Space
- Is There a Climate Crystal Ball? (Op-Ed)
- Shelter Pets Reaching Out to Touch Someone (Op-Ed)
- Brain Images Reveal How We Distinguish Real and Fake Laughter
- Is Red Warmer Than Blue? What Colours Can Tell You (Op-Ed)
April 1
- It’s So Hard Going Cold Turkey When You’re Addicted to Power