June 2006
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Eulogizing the EV1
A talk with Chris Paine, director of Who Killed the Electric Car?
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Seed's Daily Zeitgeist: 6/30/2006
Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of Seed.
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A Silver Lining to Our Science Struggles
America is worried that its global scientific advantage is in jeopardy, but is the picture really all that bleak?
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Seed's Daily Zeitgeist: 6/29/2006
Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of Seed.
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Cribsheet #5: Nuclear Power
Seed's Downloadable Tool for Living in the 21st Century
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Seed's Daily Zeitgeist: 6/28/2006
Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of Seed.
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Crater Could be Linked to "Great Dying"
A 300-mile wide indention in the Earth may be evidence for a 250-million year-old mass extinction.
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I Can't Believe It's Science: 6/16 - 6/22
Clowns can cause pregnancy, learning gets you high and the Big Apple is sweeter than you thought.
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Seduced by the Flickering Lights of the Brain
fMRI images have captivated headline writers, grant committees and the public beyond their actual scientific worth.
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Seed's Daily Zeitgeist: 6/27/2006
Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of Seed.
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GM Yeast Turn Waste Into Ethanol
Dutch researchers rely on a fungus found in elephant guts to improve ethanol's stock as a biofuel.
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Week in Science: 6/16 ‐ 6/22
NASA plans a risky launch, national science academies call for the teaching of evolution, and Norway houses a doomsday vault full of seeds.
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Scientists Triple Your Ability to Rock Out
A new musical instrument exemplifies the love affair between math and music.
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Seed's Daily Zeitgeist: 6/26/2006
Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of Seed.
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Eat My Contrails, Branson!
The hypersonic jet set is stoking a race to build spaceports from Singapore to Sheboygan.
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Monkeys Monitor Weather, Too
Monkeys account for the weather when foraging, a behavior that may have contributed to the evolution of primate intelligence.
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Seed's Daily Zeitgeist: 6/23/2006
Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of Seed.
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The Future of Fusion
After years as a purely experimental science, a decade-long international effort will make nuclear fusion a reality.
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Seed's Daily Zeitgeist: 6/22/2006
Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of Seed.
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I Can't Believe It's Science: 6/9 - 6/15
Sperm have a solid sense of smell, the seasonal migrations of human body fat and the funniest joke in the land.