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The science of justice: I think it's time we broke for lunch…
Court rulings depend partly on when the judge last had a snack(22)
Emerging infections: No good deed goes unpunished
Smallpox has gone, but monkeypox is now rearing its ugly head(0)
Surgical technology: The new face of surgery
A high-tech engineering technique offers promise to reconstructive surgery(7)
Voting and sports: Pigskin politics
The electoral effect of winning sports teams(11)
Women, testosterone and finance: Risky business
Hormones, not sexism, explain why fewer women than men work in banks(18)
The earliest granaries: Food for thought
Storing grain predates agriculture, and may have propelled it(6)
Tool use by non-tool-using animals: Sticks and stones
Rooks, which do not use tools in the wild, can make and use them in the lab(10)
Testosterone and traders: Goldfingers
How traders' testosterone levels affect their income(31)
Greenhouse gases: Eating carbon
There is a type of rock with a voracious appetite for carbon dioxide(34)
Biodiversity: Forest-friendly farming
“Betel nuts” show one way to mix crops and conservation(10)
Displays of pride and shame are hard-wired(9)
Measuring poverty: The Big Apple gets poorer
The federal definition of poverty is challenged by local government(10)
Forensic science: Telltale hairs
You can tell where someone has been from his hair(0)
Evolutionary psychology: More news from the savannah
People seem to have “animal-monitoring modules” in their brains—which is bad news for road safety(0)
New wireless technologies will link not just people but lots of objects too. That will be tremendously useful, says Kenneth Cukier (interviewed here); but getting there will be tricky(0)
Biological clocks: Want to know the time? Ask a fungus
Working out how biological clocks operate has been a hard graft. The results, though, may boost the new technology of synthetic biology(0)
Donating to charity rewards the brain(0)
Mad-cow disease: Oh no, not again
A new prion disease may have been discovered in cows(0)
Nicotine and Alzheimer's disease: Lighting up time?
A chemical derived from nicotine may protect against dementia(0)
A new report from America’s National Academy of Sciences confirms the reality of global warming(0)
A survey of the United States: Who gains?
Not only the immigrants, but America too(0)
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