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  1. Physics

    To build a clock that ticks forever, you need a spacetime crystal blueprint

    By Tom Siegfried
  2. Science & Society

    Scientists embrace Twitter for spreading the word and hashing through new data

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  3. Neuroscience

    To understand meetings of minds, scientists should study brains in the wild

    By Laura Sanders
  4. Earth

    Bad days for dinosaurs began long before the last of them died

    By Alexandra Witze
  5. Archaeology

    What the Maya really have to tell us about the end of the world

    By Matt Crenson
  6. Neuroscience

    Copycat mentality may be a hardwired way for animals to learn to avoid others’ mistakes

    Copycat mentality may be a hardwired way for animals to learn to avoid others’ mistakes.

    By Laura Sanders
  7. Physics

    Scientists seek mathematical insights for taming and explaining ‘dragon kings’

    By Tom Siegfried
  8. Science & Society

    Science needs a kick to take advantage of the generosity of crowds

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  9. Earth

    When studying a monster volcano, poke softly with a sensitive stick

    By Alexandra Witze

  10. New research on Native American origins takes anthropologists down memory lane

    In school we learn that science proceeds logically from one experiment to the next, leaving in its wake a complete and certain body of knowledge. But science isn’t like that. It twists and turns, careens and tumbles and gets stuck in deep, sticky mudholes. And sometimes, science backtracks. That’s happened in cosmology recently, as observations […]

    By Matt Crenson
  11. Science & Society

    There’s nothing special about thinking that kids think they’re extra special

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  12. Neuroscience

    When evaluating textbook dogmas about the brain, keep an open mind

    When evaluating textbook dogmas about the brain, keep an open mind.

    By Tom Siegfried