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January 2015

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46 articles

January 30
- The Hunt for Alien Extremophiles is Taking Off (Kavli Q+A)
- Crude Conspiracies? Data Suggest Nations Do Go to War Over Oil (Op-Ed)
- Fear, Ridicule, Danger: Is It Safe to Be a Climate Scientist? (Op-Ed)
- Exploring What Makes Cooperation Work
January 29
- Brains Tricked in Race-Switch Experiments Find Biases Fade
- 'Rise of the Machines' is Not a Likely Future (Op-Ed)
January 28
- Human Nature May Seal the Planet's Warming Fate (Op-Ed)
- Forget Lance Armstrong: Even Amateurs are Now Doping (Op-Ed)
- Why Racism is Bad For Your Health (Op-Ed)
- Parrot Pecking Order Hints at Humans' Social Lives
January 27
- Doorstep Delivery of Shark Fin Soup Is in Bad Taste (Op-Ed)
- As Bamboo Forests Fade, Can Pandas Survive? (Op-Ed)
- Why Wasps Massacre Each Other ... Over Figs
- Do Old Glass Windows Really 'Flow'? (Op-Ed)
- The Cheapest, Cleanest Way to Meet Electricity Demand (Op-Ed)
January 26
- Freshwater Fish are Disappearing: Where is the Global Response? (Op-Ed)
- Freshwater Fish are Floundering (Gallery)
- Urgently Examining Environmental Impacts of Fertilizer Run-off
January 25
- After Narcosub, Are Drug Drones a Surprise? (Op-Ed)
- Balancing the Good and Bad: News for Coral Reefs
- How Plants Affect the Global Carbon Cycle
January 23
- Is the GOP Waging a War on Science?
- Computer Models Aid Kidney Disease Research
January 16
- National Geographic: First Glimpse of the Hidden Cosmos
January 15
- Is 'Nano' Living Up to the Hype? (Kavli Roundtable)
- Will Legalized Marijuana Lead to More Addicts? (Op-Ed)
January 14
- Can Medical Marijuana Curb the Heroin Epidemic?
- Four Tech Breakthroughs at the Cutting Edge of Light
January 13
- How Congress is Cutting Science Out of Science Policy (Op-Ed)
- Why People Love the Phygital World (Op-Ed)
- Can 'Good' Bacteria Save Bats From Killer Fungus?
- Will Warming Surge as Arctic Microbes Feast on Defrosting Carbon?
- Microbes Unleash Buried Arctic Carbon (Gallery)
January 11
- What Beagles Reveal about Alzheimer's in Humans
January 10
- The Story Behind the Leap Second
- Viagra Is a Miracle Drug, For Premature Babies (Op-Ed)
January 9
- Origami Eye Candy (Gallery)
- Drugs are Frequently Running Out — Now What? (Op-Ed)
January 8
- Can Microbes in the Gut Influence the Brain?
- When You Stray From a Trail, Invasive Species Follow
- Magnetic Pulses May Reboot Stroke Recovery (Op-Ed)
- Wine Grapes Get New Genes to Fight Blight
January 7
- Why Most Food Labels are Wrong About Calories
- Origami: Mathematics in Creasing
- Will People Ever Trust E-Signatures?
January 6
- Can Poetry Ease the Arrival of Death?