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A Deadly Virus Is Arrested in the Middle East

Halting a MERS pandemic may hold lessons for the Ebola crisis—until the next outbreak.

September 2, 2014

The Original Natural Born Killers

In the 1920s, two murderers were defended by science. The infamous case still echoes.

September 2, 2014

Ingenious: Paul J. Steinhardt

The Princeton physicist on what’s wrong with inflation theory and his view of the Big Bang.

September 2, 2014

The Family That Couldn’t Say Hippopotamus

The origins of language are not what inherited disorders seemed to suggest.

September 2, 2014

The Greatest Animal War

Competition in Cambrian seas helped cause an explosion in diversity.

September 2, 2014

To Understand Religion, Think Football

Sacred beliefs likely arose out of prehistoric bonding and rituals.

September 2, 2014

Can You Ever Really Know an Extraterrestrial?

Knowledge about aliens might be as dangerous as the aliens themselves.

September 2, 2014

The Big Bang Is Hard Science. It Is Also a Creation Story.

Even with its explanatory power, Big Bang theory takes its place in a long line of myths.

September 2, 2014