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Pushing against paradigms

Pushing against paradigms

2013 Books Issue | Science books proposing new perspectives on drugs, death, and design

ATTRACTIVE TARGET: Exelon nuclear power generating station.
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Power hacking

Technology |  Electric utilities are a growing target for international cyberattacks

Goals in mind
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Goals in mind

Science |  Neuroscientists debate objectives behind a splashy $3 billion brain mapping effort

Authorities raid Florida abortion center

Authorities raid Florida abortion center

Abortion |  Florida authorities raided the main facility of late-term abortionist James Scott Pendergraft IV on Thursday, hauling away beds, televisions, and medical…

A technician loads patient samples into a machine for testing at Myriad Genetics.

Supreme Court strikes down gene patents

Science |  Companies may not claim patents on naturally occurring strands of human, animal, or plant DNA, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Thursday. The…

A sign outside the National Security Administration (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md.

Watchdog group sues government over internet spying

National Security |  In the wake of last week’s revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency is secretly collecting phone record and internet data from millions of…

Edward Snowden

Whistleblower or defector?

National Security |  Surveillance program leak Edward Snowden awaits uncertain fate in Hong Kong

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper

U.S. and British officials defend secret electronic surveillance program

Technology |  It seems U.S. intelligence officials aren’t the only ones benefiting from a newly revealed eavesdropping program. Late on Thursday the director of National…

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy

Supreme Court upholds universal DNA collection

Supreme Court |  State law enforcement may collect DNA samples from people arrested on suspicion of “a serious offense,” the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday. In a 5-4…

Troll fees
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Troll fees

Technology |  Some attorneys make it big off copyright settlements

EMBRYONIC FARMING: Developing human embryos at day three; Mitalipov.
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Egos and embryos

Science |  Scientists harvest stem cells from cloned human embryos for the first time

The oldest known Torah scroll.

Italian professor discovers oldest known Torah scroll

Religion |  An Italian professor and expert in Hebrew has stumbled upon what appears to be the world’s oldest known Torah scroll. Mauro Perani said a sheepskin scroll,

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