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Head transplants: surgery’s new frontier
Xiaoping Ren stood up after 10 hours hunched over an operating table and looked proudly at his patient, a small black mouse with a new brown head...
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Madness Stones to New Age Medicine
A History of Drilling Holes in Our Heads
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What Could Go Wrong?
The government is putting a pathogen-research lab in Tornado Alley. By Laura H. Kahn.
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Psychosurgeons Use Lasers to Burn Away Mental Illness
This is a lobotomy updated for the 21st century: burning away highly specified parts of the brain to treat mental illnesses.
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‘If I burn out, I burn out’: meet Taylor Wilson, nuclear boy genius
He fused the atom at 14, has advised the US government on counter-terrorism and plans to beat cancer – and he’s still only 21. What scares Taylor Wilson? Asking a girl for her number... (June)
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Anthrax Lab’s History of ‘F-ing Around’ With Explosives
The facility that accidentally shipped live samples of the deadly pathogen was mixing powerful bomb-making ingredients with kitchen tools, investigators found.
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Pentagon Blames Anthrax Fiasco on No One
For over a decade, the U.S. military shipped a deadly biological agent around the globe. But the Pentagon can’t find a single ‘root cause’ for this monumental goof.
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PSA: Don’t Make Meth In Federal Labs And Blow Them Up. You Might Lose Your Job
One more thing to add to your New Employee Handbook: Please do not cook meth in your workplace. A law enforcement officer at a federal lab has resigned after an explosion destroyed a security door in a building at the National Institute of Standards and Technology... By Doctor Zoom.
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This scientist might end animal cruelty—unless GMO hardliners stop him
Scott Fahrenkrug thinks he can tweak farm animals’ genes to make them happier and healthier. By Kat McGowan.
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The weight of a butterfly
The design for the first atomic bomb was frighteningly simple: One lump of a special kind of uranium, the projectile, was fired at a very high speed into another lump of that same rare uranium, the target... By Emily Strasser.
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A Field Guide to Psychedelics
The unusual couple behind an online encyclopedia of psychoactive substances. By Emily Witt.
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The Doomsday Scam
For decades, aspiring bomb makers — including ISIS — have desperately tried to get their hands on a lethal substance called red mercury. There’s a reason that they never have. By C.J. Chivers.
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Is evil a disease? ISIS and the neuroscience of brutality
It's hard to understand how the Nazis, ISIS and other radical groups can turn ordinary people into brutal killers. But perhaps evil is a disease – one we can treat. (Nov. 11)
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Here be dragons
Reading about the various radiation hazards in the Manhattan Project's history can be spine-tingling, even with a measured view of the dangers. By Alex Wellerstein. (Nov. 20)
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Scientists manipulate consciousness in rats
Scientists showed that they could alter brain activity of rats and either wake them up or put them in an unconscious state by changing the firing rates of neurons in the central thalamus, a region known to regulate arousal. (Dec. 17)
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This Mad Scientist Will Clone 100,000 Cows
This year, a Chinese company plans to open a massive factory to clone 100,000 cows. Just how far will this mass reproductive technology go? By Abby Haglage.
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Human-Animal Chimeras Are Gestating on U.S. Research Farms
A radical new approach to generating human organs is to grow them inside pigs or sheep. By Antonio Regalado.
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The Man Who Turned Night Into Day
In the 90s, a team of Russian scientists tried to use a giant space mirror to turn night into day. For a second, they succeeded. By Brian Merchant.
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When Doctors Took ‘Family Planning’ Into Their Own Hands
A new documentary, “No Más Bebés,” examines a California hospital’s sterilizations of Mexican-American women in the early 1970s — and the women who filed suit in response. By Marcela Valdes.
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The Big Sleep
Scientists Pat and Peter Shaw died recently in a suicide pact. Their daughters tell the story of their plan - and their remarkable lives. By Julia Medew.
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