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Neanderthal culture: Old masters

The earliest known cave paintings fuel arguments about whether Neanderthals were the mental equals of modern humans. Spots and stencils in El Castillo cave, Spain — one at least 40,800 years old —…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2991 words)

Public health: Polio's moving target

Mohammed Abubakar's home is not on any map — at least not yet. To reach his settlement in a desolate part of northern Nigeria, four health workers creep over deep-rutted roads in an old…
PUBLISHED: April 17, 2013
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2026 words)

Genetics: A gene of rare effect

ADAPTED FROM: PETER DAZELEY/GETTY When Sharlayne Tracy showed up at the clinical suite in the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas last January, the bandage wrapped around…
PUBLISHED: April 9, 2013
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3426 words)

Astrophysics: Fire in the hole!

andy potts In March 2012, Joseph Polchinski began to contemplate suicide — at least in mathematical form. A string theorist at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara,…
PUBLISHED: April 3, 2013
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2637 words)

Mapping brain networks: Fish-bowl neuroscience

A recently hatched zebrafish is swimming upriver for the first time. Its big round eyes, bulging on the front of its eyelash-sized body, scan the surroundings. Suddenly, it sees the scenery flying…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 23, 2013
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2248 words)

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The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist

On the morning of July 30, 2012, an accountant named Michel Gauvreau arrived at the Global Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve, housed in a huge red brick warehouse on the side of the Trans-Canadian…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 2, 2013
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3074 words)

Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek

After a few minutes, the small talk faded. Worries went unexpressed. “When you’re up on top of a peak like that, it’s usually hang out for a second, and then it’s…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 20, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2164 words)

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The best of our longer reads as selected by our editors. 18 December 2012 Article tools Print Email
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