Seed: Science is Culture

Articles

• I Can't Believe It's Science: 7/21 - 7/27
  The expanding US body doesn't fit in its medical machines, the sordid story of love between a duck and a hen and an equation that predicts when your kid is going to ask, "Are we there yet?"
• Connecting the Dots
  How forensic DNA may finally fulfill its promise
• The Self-Perpetuating Cycle of Smoking and Drinking
  Puffing on a cigarette while drinking may keep you from feeling as drunk as you probably are.
• Seed's Daily Zeitgeist: 7/31/2006
  Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of Seed.
• If It Walks Like a Duck...
  How describing a new species by referencing its closest relative often results in misinformation... and hilarity.

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• Keeping the Time of Our Lives
  Using a single mercury atom, scientists develop the most precise atomic clock yet.
• Week in Science: 7/21-7/27
  China gears up for space super-fruit, animal rights activists back off and US lawmakers pair better fuel efficiency with expanded drilling.
• Seed's Daily Zeitgeist: 7/28/2006
  Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of Seed.
• Andrea Barrett + Niles Eldredge
  The historical fiction writer and curator of the American Museum of Natural History enter the Seed Salon to discuss the role of narrative in science.
• Seed's Daily Zeitgeist: 7/27/2006
  Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of Seed.
• A Fundamental Difference in the Autistic Brain
  Swollen amgydalae suggest causes, and possibly even cures, for the debilitating disorder.
• The FDA is a Cauldron of Discontent
  A new survey of Food and Drug Administration scientists finds wide ranging and disturbing problems throughout the agency.
• The Secret of the Booming Dunes
  A team of researchers constructs an experimental apparatus to explore the intonation of sand dune avalanches.
• Seed's Daily Zeitgeist: 7/26/2006
  Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of Seed.
• How to Build a Better NASA
  Let's allow NASA to do what it was designed for: space exploration, and lots of it.
• Seed's Daily Zeitgeist: 7/25/2006
  Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of Seed.
• Why Do Grandmas Exist?
  Studies of hunter-gatherers in Tanzania shed light on why humans, unlike other primates, undergo menopause.
• Look Around You
  A Visual Exploration of Complex Networks
• I Can't Believe It's Science: 7/14 - 7/20
  Men get stupider after sharing their bed, ferocious animals get better treatment at an Israeli hospital and a stem cell finding done without federal funding.
• Seed's Daily Zeitgeist: 7/24/2006
  Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of Seed.