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The Game Changers

In this installation of Revolutionary Minds, Seed profiles individuals who aren’t willing to settle for the status quo, and instead strive for a better way for science to exist. They are prizing openness over secrecy, access over scarcity, and they are creating a future that will help science fulfill its potential to make all our lives better. Read on

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Features

  • The Damnedest Lies

    The success of fivethirtyeight.com is a credit not only to statistical prowess but also to keen intuition about social habits.

  • Agnostic Machinery

    Bill Maher hoped to use science to paint religion as a neurological disorder, but the researchers in his film Religulous hold a more complex picture of why we have faith.

  • The Double Negative

    How can evolution explain both the appeal and recent failings of negative campaigning?

  • The Mason's Apprentice

    Our closest single-celled relatives reveal the origins of the stuff that holds us together.

  • The Statistical Universe

    We look up to an expanse of sky that is billions of light-years in size, but the universe may be far larger than what we are able to see.

  • No Resting on Laurels

    The Olympics, China's world debut, have ended. Now what?

  • How We Evolve

    A growing number of scientists argue that human culture itself has become the foremost agent of biological change.

  • In Defense of Difference

    Scientists offer new insight into what to protect of the world's rapidly vanishing languages, cultures, and species.

  • The Trouble with Biodiversity

    Life is more varied near the equator. But making sense of that has confounded biologists for 200 years.

  • What Future for NASA?

    America's space agency faces uncertain future on its 50th anniversary.

Seed Salon

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Steven Strogatz + Carlo Ratti

The mathematician and the architect discuss the laws that govern urban behavior and how those laws might shape the cities of the future.

FeedbackLoop

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Garrett Lisi's Exceptional Approach to Everything

Theoretical physicist Garrett Lisi on the open-access movement, beautiful mathematics, and the pursuit of life and science in Maui.

On the Blogs

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Reviewing Peer-Review

ScienceBloggers discuss the advantages of open science and debate the necessity of the current peer-review system.

Explore

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A Place For Science

On the trail of the haunts, homes, and posts of knowledge, from the laboratory to the field. Delve into our interactive map featuring global hotspots.
+Where I do Science
+Noah Kalina's Labs at Night

Cribsheet

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Biofuels

Can the production of biofuels be improved to make them a more viable alternative to fossil fuels? Cribsheet breaks it down.

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