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May 2014

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May 31
- Health Check: How Do You Choose Strong Painkillers?
- Political Lies, White Lies and Damned Lies (Op-Ed)
May 30
- Eat More Early, Eat Less at Night (Op-Ed)
- To Prevent Sexual Assault, Campus Culture Must Change (Op-Ed)
- Every Four Minutes, Another American Home or Business Goes Solar (Op-Ed)
- Latest Game Consoles Suck Up Electricity, Even at Rest
- Cosmic Inflation: Have Scientists Indeed Found the Smoking Gun? (Q+A)
- Explainer: What is Electronic Skin?
- VIDEO: How the Weather Affects Our Mood (Op-Ed)
May 29
- Benchmarking Carbon Pollution From 100 Top Power Producers (Op-Ed)
- The Autism-Epilepsy Connection (Op-Ed)
- Student Arrests Push Universities to Shed Fossil-Fuel Investments (Op-Ed)
- The Private Tragedy of Living with a Mass Killer in the Family (Op-Ed)
- Black to the Future: Carbon Fiber Research Seeds New Innovation (Op-Ed)
May 28
- Photos: Huge Swath of Amazon Preserved in Record-Setting Deal
- Irreversible Changes Now Affect Antarctica and the World (Op-Ed)
- Handcuffs, Bear-Traps and Spikes Lift the Lid on Some Unique Insect Sexual Habits (Op-Ed)
- How's Your Poker Face? Why It's So Hard to Sniff Out a Liar (Op-Ed)
May 27
- Can Exercise "Snacks" Stabilize Blood Sugar? (Op-Ed)
- Zebras Tracked Migrating 300 Miles, a Record African Transit
- My Time With Comet Lovejoy (Op-Ed)
- Drilling Surprise Opens Door to Volcano-Powered Electricity (Op-Ed)
- Explainer: What is a Supercritical Fluid?
May 25
- Are mermaids real?
May 24
- Rare Camelopardalid Meteor Shower This Weekend Is Full of Unknowns (Op-Ed)
- CIA Stops Fake Vaccination Programs, but Will It Matter? (Op-Ed)
- Smart DJs Use Mathematics to Mix the Perfect Beat (Op-Ed)
- Building a Better You? The Era of Trans-Human Technology (Op-Ed)
- What the Heck is Hirschsprung Disease?
- How the U.S. Military Fosters Future Research Leaders (Op-Ed)
May 23
- Huge Swath of Amazon Preserved in Record-Setting Deal (Op-Ed)
- Climate Change, in Real Time (Op-Ed)
- Gazprom's Well-Matched Marriage with China has been a Long Time in the Making (Op-Ed)
- Explainer: What is Hay Fever and Why Do You Have It?
- Back Pain: The Spiraling Effects of a Problem No One Can See (Op-Ed)
May 22
- Restoring Science’s Place in Society Will Help Us Resolve the Big Debates (Op-Ed)
- Cheap as Chips Phones: Is It Time to Make the Switch? (Op-Ed)
- Nerves of Endearment: How a Gentle Touch Affects Emotions (Op-Ed)
May 19
- Recycling the 'Unrecyclable': A New Class of Thermoset Plastics (Op-Ed)
- Five Brain Challenges We Can Overcome in the Next Decade (Op-Ed)
May 18
- We Can't Stop Pirates Until We Understand Why They Do It (Op-Ed)
- Scientists at Work: Designing the Fastest Car on the Planet (Op-Ed)
May 16
- 500 Right Whales Could Face the Wrong Fate (Op-Ed)
- Do Men Have a Higher Threshold for Pain, or Are They Just a Bit Emotionally Repressed? (Op-Ed)
- Scientists Focusing on the Wrong Sharks in the Wrong Places (Op-Ed)
May 15
- Forget Folk Remedies, Medieval Europe Spawned A Golden Age of Medical Theory
- Tobacco Plants May Contain Cure for Cancer, a New Twist in Protein–Lipid Interactions
May 14
- Muslims and Christians in Africa Work Together to Prevent Malaria (Op-Ed)
- Playing it Forward: Video Games and Gamers Evolving (Op-Ed)
- Canadian Polar Bear Hunt Continues, Despite Extinction Threat (Op-Ed)
- The Beautiful New Jellyfish Identified in the Gulf of Venice
- Have Cosmologists Lost Their Minds in the Multiverse? (Op-Ed)
May 13
- Equipment "Megaloads" on Roads Add Twist to Tar Sands Debate (Op-Ed)
- After 500 Years, Dürer's Art Still Engraved on Mathematicians' Minds (Op-Ed)
- From Human Extinction to Super Intelligence, Two Futurists Explain (Op-Ed)
- Male-only Gene Trick Could Leave Invasive Fish Species Floundering (Op-Ed)
May 12
- The Ancient Greek Riddle That Helps Us Understand Modern Disease Threats (Op-Ed)
May 11
- Nintendo Can't Take the Gay Out of Gaming Without a Fight (Op-Ed)
May 10
- 60 Million American Birdwatchers Chase Ever-Shrinking Quarry (Op-Ed)
- As Saturn Slips Behind the Moon (Op-Ed)
- Plants Respond to Salt Just Like Humans Respond to Pain (Op-Ed)
- Cities are Failing to Cope with Global Challenges (Op-Ed)
May 9
- Citizen Canines? Pet Legal Status is Evolving (Op-Ed)
- Why Climate Change is a U.S. Children's Health Issue (Op-Ed)
- Amazing! How Structure Explains Spider-Man's Webs (Op-Ed)
- As AI Advances into 'Deep Learning,' are Robot Butlers on the Horizon? (Op-Ed)
- Mystery Starfish Plague Extends to Canada and Mexico, but the Answer is Within Our Grasp
- VIDEO: The Benefits of High-Intensity Workouts
May 8
- OnEarth: The Great Green Desert
- Peak Phosphorus Will be a Shortage We Can't Stomach (Op-Ed)
- Temper Trap: The Genetics of Aggression and Self-Control
May 7
- The Grocery Store and Dinner Plate Get Hit By Climate Change (Op-Ed)
- Our Ability to Cope with Food Poisoning Outbreaks Has Not Improved Much in 50 Years
- Humans and Squid Evolved Same Eyes Using Same Genes
May 6
- 'Gemsigns' (US 2014): Book Excerpt
- Trusting the Future? Ethics of Human Genetic Modification (Op-Ed)
- Halting Drone-Assisted Hunting Before It Takes Off (Op-Ed)
- With 2.5 Million Injuries, Youth Basketball is a Contact Sport (Op-Ed)
- As Coral Bleaching Continues, Reefs in Peril (Op-Ed)
- Why Did Humans Grow Four Inches in 100 Years? It Wasn't Just Diet (Op-Ed)
- Detection Devices: How a ‘Sensor Society’ Quietly Takes Over (Op-Ed)
- The Cartoon Thing: Why Are Female Scientists Missing? (Op-Ed)
May 5
- Smoke and Mirrors: Who's Really Fueling Those Bogus EPA Attacks? (Op-Ed)
May 4
- Massive Citizen-Powered Climate Simulation Links Winter Floods to Global Warming (Op-Ed)
- 'Part-Time Scientists' Look to Fast-Track Space Exploration (Op-Ed)
May 3
- Finding the Strength to Reach the Ocean's Furthest Depths
- Scientists Hold Hope For New Measles Drug
- Are We Heading for a Worrying Super El Niño?
- The Need for Astronomy: Teaching Science in Tanzania (Op-Ed)
May 2
- Stress Reduction May Help Women Get Pregnant (Op-Ed)
- Jiggy Mazda and the Spiders from Cars (Op-Ed)
- Bites and Parasites: Vector-Borne Diseases and the Bugs Spreading Them
May 1
- The Time for Wind and Solar Energy is Now (Op-Ed)
- How I Found the Lost Desert Camp of Lawrence of Arabia (Op-Ed)
- Ravens Have Social Abilities Previously Only Seen in Humans (Op-Ed)