Seed: Science is Culture

Articles

• Highways and Byways in the Brain
  The brain's division of gray and white matter optimizes speed of signal traffic.
• New & Notable: 1/20 - 1/26
  Germans are grumpy, sex is soothing and plants are not to blame for global warming.
• Seeing Things
  Machines kick our fleshy little butts at many activities: They're stronger lifters, faster multipliers and better chess players. But with...
• 20 Years Later ...
  Seed looks back at the tragedy of the Challenger.
• Science in the Air at Davos
  Delegates to the World Economic Forum discuss the emergence of India and China, human enhancement and oil.

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• Week in Science: 1/20 - 1/26
  Chimps may be closer cousins than we thought, a NASA official leaves to find E.T., and the US fares poorly in a study of environmental responsibility.
• Mr. Feynman Goes to Washington
  How the inimitable professor solved the mystery of the Challenger explosion.
• Interstellar Garbage Dump
  Junk is making for a messy race to outer space.
• Losing in the Environmental Medal Count
  Report presented at World Economic Forum in Davos ranks US 28th in environmental performance.
• Flower Power
  AIDS drug may soon be derived from sunflowers.
• Second Annual Fiction Supplement
  CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
• Wake the Dead
  Linguist revitalizes Virginia Algonquian for The New World.
• Rumble in the Jungle
  Sexual competition primes plants for extinction.
• Hopi Power
  One of their own gives the gift of electricity to her Native American tribe.
• Fat-Burning in the Dark
  Scientists show connection between darkness and metabolic fuel switch.
• New & Notable: 1/13 - 1/19
  Swordtails measure their equipment, women smell best when they're making eggs and parrots divulge all your secrets.
• The Week in Science: 1/13 - 1/19
  Avian flu mutates itself, Greenpeace leaves a present and the Stardust returns with, well, dust.
• Africa Scientific
  Contrary to widespread perception, sub-Saharan Africa is home to new science initiatives that are helping to pull the continent out of its turbulent recent history.
• The New Federalism
  Is the United States government unburdening itself of the big science issues and handing those responsibilities to individual states?
• Will The Real Embryonic Stem Cell Please Stand Up?
  Cloned stem cells are indistinguishable from fertilized stem cells.