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June 2014

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June 30
- Natural Medicine is Great, but Chemists Can Make It Even Better (Op-Ed)
- Catching Hyenas on Camera (Op-Ed)
June 29
- Preventing Concussions is About Care, Not Coddling (Op-Ed)
- Tracing the Earth’s Hottest Volcanoes from Core to Ore
- 7 Easy Ways to Save Water This Summer (Op-Ed)
June 27
- From the Frontline: Saving Australia's Threatened Mammals
- Detecting Brain Activity in Coma Patients Can Be Scary for Families (Op-Ed)
June 26
- Science As Art: Soundscapes, Light Boxes and Microscopes (Op-Ed)
- A Coal Town Turnaround (Op-Ed)
- What Does Climate Change Mean for Sea Turtles? (Op-Ed)
- Attack on Reuters Makes Mockery of Cyber Security (Op-Ed)
June 25
- For a Dog, Play Means Play (Usually) (Op-Ed)
- 'Fat Blaster' Drug Can Give You Weight Loss to Die For (Op-Ed)
- It Takes a Lot More Than Carrots to Beat Cancer (Op-Ed)
June 24
- How Much is the 'Lost Pleasure' From a Cigarette Worth? (Op-Ed)
- The Threat of Illegal Fishing Is Too Great to Ignore (Op-Ed)
- The Beautiful Game and The Beautiful Mind (Op-Ed)
- Understanding Eye Mechanics to Help Treat Degenerative Disease (Op-Ed)
- Explainer: El Niño and La Niña
June 22
- Plan to Build 'CSI Elephant' Uses DNA Forensics to Track Poachers (Op-Ed)
- Fewer Patients Kill Themselves in Mental Health Units but There are Bigger Benefits to Home Care (Op-Ed)
June 21
- After Sandy, New York Plans to Rebuild by Blue-Green Design (Op-Ed)
June 20
- Would You Compromise Your Computer for One Cent an Hour? (Op-Ed)
- A Simple Question That Can Save a Child's Life (Op-Ed)
- Salamanders Give Clues to How We Might Regrow Human Limbs (Op-Ed)
- Why Artificial Sweetener Can Be Dangerous (Op-Ed)
- Pork Producers Prohibit Painful Pig Pens (Op-Ed)
June 19
- Creatures Living on Tiny Ocean Plastic May Be Cleaning our Seas (Op-Ed)
- The Three Policies That Can Counter Global Warming (Op-Ed)
- Nearly a Century Later, Edwin Hubble's Legacy Lives On (Op-Ed)
June 18
- What Happens to Your Body When You Get Ebola?
- What Is It Really Like Under the Indian Ocean?
June 17
- Celestial Showstopper: The Only Venus Transits I'll Ever See (Op-Ed)
- Rough Day at Work? Call of Duty Can Help You Recover (Op-Ed)
- Does 'Offsetting' Work to Make Up for Habitat Lost to Mining? (Op-Ed)
June 14
- Deadly Airborne Flu Virus Created in Lab – Not as Bad as It Sounds (Op-Ed)
- Yes, You Can Get Your Cat to Behave
June 13
- Time to Discard the Metric that Decides How Science is Rated (Op-Ed)
- Another Titanic Change is Needed to Save More Lives at Sea (Op-Ed)
June 12
- Peering Inside the World Cup's Brazuca Ball
June 11
- Simply Copying Nature is No Way to Succeed at Inventing – Just Ask Leonardo da Vinci (Op-Ed)
- Health Check: How Food Affects Mood and Mood Affects Food (Op-Ed)
- The Diversity of Diatoms
- The Air You're Breathing? A Diatom Made That
June 10
- Forging Biodegradable Plastic From Methane and Plant Waste
- Why Haven't We Encountered Aliens Yet? The Answer Could be Climate Change
- The First Vertebrate Sexual Organs Evolved as an Extra Pair of Legs
June 9
- Irresponsible Brains? The Role of Consciousness in Guilt (Op-Ed)
- The Natural Way to Keep Fruit Fresh and Stop the Rot (Op-Ed)
June 8
- Tough Times Ahead for the Right to be Forgotten (Op-Ed)
- Genes May Be Key as California Chrome Aims for Racehorse History Books
June 7
- Where Does the Brain Stop and the Mind Start? (Op-Ed)
- 'The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons' (US 2014): Book Excerpt
- Holocaust Denial and Conspiracy Theories Won't Solve World Problems (Op-Ed)
- Too Many Deer? Try Birth Control (Op-Ed)
- Human Behavior, Not Hurricane Names, Dictates Danger (Op-Ed)
- Is Climate Change Response 'Fight or Flight' or 'Rest and Digest'? (Op-Ed)
- Three Common Indoor Allergy Myths Busted
- 'Innovation the NASA Way' (US 2014): Book Excerpt
- How Innovation Will Get U.S. to Mars 2020 (Op-Ed)
June 6
- Can Fuel Economy Targets Survive All the Loopholes? (Op-Ed)
- Higher Solar-Cell Efficiency Achieved With Zinc-Oxide Coating
- Animal Data Is Not Reliable for Human Health Research (Op-Ed)
- Molecules Have No Morals: Ecstasy Godfather Alexander Shulgin's Legacy (Op-Ed)
- Can You Surf the East Australian Current, 'Finding Nemo'-style? (Op-Ed)
June 5
- For One Night Stands, Girth Matters
- Top 5 Signs It's Time to Stand Up for Science (Op-Ed)
- 'Reckless Disregard' (US 2014): Book Excerpt
- Parasitic Wasp Turns Roaches into Zombie Slaves using Neurotoxic Cocktail
- Explainer: What is Vitiligo?
June 4
- Celebrities, Stooges, and 25th-Century Reporters: Are Video Games Art or Merchandise? (Op-Ed)
- Race Against Time to Prevent Deadly Spread of Polio (Op-Ed)
- New Type of In-Body Device Could be Charged Wirelessly (Op-Ed)
- Health Check: What You Should Know About Varicose Veins
- Born this way? An Evolutionary View of 'Gay Genes' (Op-Ed)
- Can Social Media Prevent Suicide? (Op-Ed)
June 2
- The Crab-Castrating Parasite That Zombifies Its Prey
June 1
- Good Vibrations Bring Braille into the 21st Century (Op-Ed)