Science & Medicine

Sept–Oct/14

Those who know medicine buy generics.

Sept–Oct/14

What scientists don’t know about static electricity might shock you.

Sept–Oct/14

Researcher Maud Slye’s (EX 1899) contentious career helped open the field of cancer genetics.

08.07.2014

Astronomer Wendy Freedman, chair of the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization's board of directors, joins the faculty as a University Professor.
July–Aug/14

Argonne’s new director, Peter B. Littlewood, leads “dream teams” of scientists and engineers working to solve some of society’s most pressing challenges.

July–Aug/14

The 89 mummies at the Oriental Institute include 13 humans, four cats, and a monkey paw.

July–Aug/14

Simulating a protein that allows cells to run amok, ­researchers hunt for better cancer drugs.

06.25.2014

Advancing science, technology, engineering, and math education through research and evaluation.

Spring–Summer/14

The Think Tank dispatches neuroscience from the lab to the neighborhood.

05.21.2014

The blockbuster cosmic inflation discovery faces a “sledgehammer” of scrutiny.
05.19.2014

A sample of Voyager’s Golden Record.

May–June/14

Autism shows a correlation to environmental toxins, the adipose fin may not be so vestigial after all, economists revisit the effects of an early-childhood program 49 years later, and an ancient weather report gets a new translation.