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By Duncan Graham-Rowe of Nature magazine The first drug to show signs of not just halting multiple sclerosis (MS), but actually reversing the nerve damage caused by the condition, has taken a significant step towards clinical approval.

I know I’m not physically hurt.

These are tough times for science and technology journalists, who, if they still have jobs, rarely have the time and travel budgets required for in-depth reporting. But some journalists are still managing to produce tough, labor-intensive, on-the-ground investigations of vitally important topics. One standout is my long-time friend Glenn Zorpette of IEEE Spectrum , the magazine of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

By Christine Stebbins CHICAGO (Reuters) - Crop scientists in the United States, the world's largest food exporter, are pondering an odd question: could the danger of global warming really be the heat? [More]

"Where there are humans, you’ll find flies, [More]

Filmmaker Kate Schermerhorn cuts the cake with her second husband. The couple started filming "After Happily Ever After" together on their honeymoon

In the November 2011 issue of Scientific American, author Bijal Trivedi looks at the ongoing controversies surrounding the use of genetically modified mosquitoes to fight dengue fever.

Outside Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico--10 miles from Guatemala.

By Apornrath Phoonphongphiphat and Martin Petty BANGKOK (Reuters) - More districts of Thailand's capital were on high alert on Monday with floods bearing down from northern Bangkok as authorities raced to pump water toward the sea and defend the business district. [More]

Art and politics don’t generally mix. Just ask Spanish painter Francisco Goya

In a 2007 Vanity Fair article Christopher Hitchens asked: Why are men, taken on average and as a whole, funnier than women? Well a recent study finds that men might have a tiny edge over women in producing humor but the gap is too small to account for the stereotype. [More]

* Quake was magnitude 7.2, Turkish observatory says * Up to 1,000 may have been killed [More]

Climate change is hard to hide, but the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is trying anyway.

Bike-share stands: a common sight around Paris. Credit: John Matson/Scientific American I recently spent three days in Paris on the way home from a conference , becoming just the latest in a long history of visitors to fall in love with the City of Light. It wasn’t the sights, the cafes, or the croissants that got me--although all those things helped.