Features
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A Still Curious Case
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button grapples with age-old fears of death and aging, physiological processes that modern science is only now beginning to understand.
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Seed Picks 2008
The editors of Seed select the year's outstanding book releases.
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Group Think
A Tel Aviv University professor melds math and sociology of the Internet to predict the next big thing in music.
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The Advisors
A first look at President-elect Obama's science team.
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Cold Truth
At a recent celebration of the International Polar Year in New York, artists and scientists share work inspired by the shifting landscape of Antarctica.
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Harun Yahya's Dark Arts
One-on-one with the Turkish creationist who uses bad science and bizarre art to spread his vision of a troubled world.
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Of Primates and Personhood
Will according rights and "dignity" to nonhuman organisms halt research?
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The Biohacking Hobbyist
Why does all biology happen in academic or industrial labs? Mac Cowell, cofounder of DIYbio, seeks to change that.
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iGEM 2008: Novice Bioengineers Get Their Freak On
A recent iGEM judge reflects on spontaneous dance parties and the future of molecular machines.
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Bigger Faster Better
Craig Venter, the man who sequenced the human genome, explains in a Seed exclusive what's holding science back and how he intends to fix it.
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The Scientist in 2008
Steven Shapin explores who the scientists of today are, where they work, and what motivates them.
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The US Versus God Particles
The Atom Smashers splits open the US's problematic relationship with scientific research through a group of physicists under threat of competition from the LHC.
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Garrett Lisi's Exceptional Approach to Everything
How a physicist published and vetted his revolutionary work signals the potential future of an open, transparent peer review process.
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Reviewing Peer-Review
ScienceBloggers discuss the advantages of open science and debate the necessity of the current peer-review system.
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Robert Tjian
The recently appointed president of HHMI on the importance of creativity and innovation for the future of funding science.
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The Damnedest Lies
The success of fivethirtyeight.com is a credit not only to statistical prowess but also to keen intuition about social habits.
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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.
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The Double Negative
How can evolution explain both the appeal and recent failings of negative campaigning?
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The Mason's Apprentice
Our closest single-celled relatives reveal the origins of the stuff that holds us together.
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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.