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Why Taxi Drivers Don’t Die of Alzheimer’s
Explaining taxi and ambulance drivers’ protection against Alzheimer’s disease.
by Erin O'Donnell
The Rise of the Wind Industry
Geoffrey Jones studies America's forgotten green entrepreneurs.
by Alexander Bloom
Tea Party Passions
Theda Skocpol analyzes the politics and demographics of the Tea Party.
by Erin O'Donnell
A Diabetes Link to Meat
Eating even small amounts of red meat daily increases the risk of diabetes.
by Jonathan Shaw
The Biology of Right and Wrong
Brains scans reveal that In moral decision-making, people rely on emotion to guide choices in some situations and rationality in others.
by Peter Saalfield
How the Web Affects Memory
Psychology professor Daniel Wegner has found that access to information online changes what people remember.
by Alexander Bloom
What We Know About Wealth
Harvard Business School professor Michael Norton finds Americans prefer a more equal distribution of wealth.
by Elizabeth Gudrais
Life: The Edited Version
George Church has developed tools for large-scale editing of the genome as fast and easy as word processing.
by Courtney Humphries
A Bet and a Black Hole
Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics confirm the presence of a black hole in the constellation Cygnus.
by Jonathan Shaw
The Veil’s Revival
Veils have seen a resurgence among young Muslim women worldwide. Is this a step backward, or a marker of progressive politics?
by Erin O'Donnell
High-Tech Art Sleuthing
Conservators are using laser-assisted pigment analysis to identify and authenticate the work of modern artists.