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New Japanese SpeechJammer gun disrupts brain's cognitive process, painlessly stopping the subject from speaking

Journalist and author Maryn McKenna talks about antibiotic resistance in agriculture and human health, MRSA, and a brief return to the subject of fecal transplants. [More]

There’s been a lot of buzz in the science blogosphere recently about the Research Works Act, a piece of legislation that’s been introduced in the U.S. that may have big impacts on open access publishing of scientific results.

NASA’s plans for human spaceflight, the subject of much hand-wringing since the curtains closed on the agency’s space shuttle program in July, took a big step this week when the agency announced plans for a powerful new rocket to take astronauts into deep space. [More]

Evolutionary biologist Lee Alan Dugatkin has made his career studying the evolution of cooperation, so it makes perfect sense that the subject of his latest book would be an anarchist. [More]

Evolutionary biologist Lee Alan Dugatkin has made his career studying the evolution of cooperation, so it makes perfect sense that the subject of his latest book would be an anarchist. [More]

(PhysOrg.com) -- The nucleus of an atom, like most everything else, is more complicated than we first thought. Just how much more complicated is the subject of a Petascale Early Science project led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory's David Dean.

It’s the subject no one wants to discuss: sexually transmitted diseases. And even fewer want to have an in-depth conversation with their doctor or nurse about them.

Fitting fossils together to assemble massive dinosaur skeletons is certainly no small feat.