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  1. Health & Medicine

    Finding the Golden Genes

    Advances in gene therapy could tempt some athletes to enhance their genetic makeup, leading some researchers to work on detection methods just in case.

    By Patrick Barry
  2. Health & Medicine

    Insightful Light

    Raman spectroscopy may offer doctors, dentists and forensic scientists a better tool for molecular detection.

    By Ashley Yeager

  3. Potent Promise: Essential Stemness

    Scientists move closer to understanding the dual fates of embryonic stem cells — to divide or develop.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  4. Physics

    It’s Likely That Times Are Changing

    A century ago, mathematician Hermann Minkowski famously merged space with time, establishing a new foundation for physics; today physicists are rethinking how the two should fit together

    By Tom Siegfried
  5. Life

    Sting Operation

    Scientists use bees and wasps to sniff out the illicit and the dangerous.

    By Susan Gaidos
  6. Astronomy

    Dead — but not duds

    White dwarfs shed light on physics and the fate of the cosmos.

    By Ashley Yeager
  7. Chemistry

    Silk

    Mimicking how spiders make their complex array of silks could usher in a tapestry of new materials, and other animals or plants could be designed to be the producers.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg

  8. The decider

    Informing the debate over the reality of ‘free will’ requires learning something about the lateral habenula.

    By Tom Siegfried
  9. Earth

    The Hunt for Habitable Planets

    Here and now, a new suite of small telescopes are poised to look for Earthlike planets beyond the solar system.

    By Ron Cowen
  10. Microbes

    Team spirit

    Working together, bacteria and other microbes can accomplish much more than they can alone. Now scientists hope to harness that ability by engineering their own microbial consortia.

    By Susan Gaidos
  11. Neuroscience

    It’s written all over your face

    To potential mates, your mug may reveal more than you think.

    By Elizabeth Quill
  12. Humans

    The Dating Go Round

    Speed dating offers scientists a peek at how romance actually blossoms.

    By Bruce Bower