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  • News

    January 3, 2007

    A Very Good Year

    We look back on the big news stories of 2006 and ask the tough question: Are you an apologist for the year that was?

  • News

    May 18, 2005

    Student of Concern

    Will we be more secure -- or just less competitive -- if the government forces hundreds of thousands of international science students to get export licenses simply to look through a microscope?

  • Culture

    November 24, 2004

    On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

    The second edition of this modern classic is an even more thoroughgoing amalgam of history, science, literature, and cooking tips

  • News

    September 17, 2003

    Blowing It

    How San Francisco elections officials dropped the ball on instant runoff voting

  • News

    November 21, 2001

    The New Economy

    The road to Punta Abreojos is paved with hollow intentions

  • News

    November 21, 2001

    Crying Whale

    Environmental groups sent out a worldwide call to save the gray whale from a Mexican salt plant. They got millions of dollars and thousands of new members. But scientists found no threat to the whales.

  • News

    September 5, 2001

    The Shaman's Apprentice

    Kao Saephanh says he is a typical teenager. But most 15-year-olds aren't learning how to talk to the spirit world and perform animal sacrifices

  • News

    March 15, 2000

    Spiritual CULTivation

    In China, Falun Gong practitioners are beaten and persecuted, so the U.S. is granting them asylum. But is this movement as harmless as it seems?

  • News

    February 10, 1999

    M

    As they explore M-theory, will Bay Area physicists earn the eternal glory sure to reward the inventors of the Theory of Everything?

  • News

    June 17, 1998

    Pulling the Wings Off Flies

    A scientist discovers what makes the insects so agile -- and why NASA should care

  • News

    July 2, 1997

    Planet Wars

    Last year, two Bay Area astronomers said they had discovered planets outside our solar system and became instant media celebrities. Now, Paul Butler and Geoff Marcy face prominent scientific challengers who contend some of the new planets are nothing but

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