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From research topics funded by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency between 2007 and 2012. The list was obtained by the Federation of American Scientists. BiomaterialsMetamaterialsFusion propulsion

Running to the Grave

by Barbara Ehrenreich,

By Barbara Ehrenreich, from Natural Causes, which will be published next month by Twelve. Ehrenreich is the author of more than a dozen books, including Nickel and Dimed (Henry Holt).…

Destroyer of Worlds

by Elaine Scarry, Eric Schlosser, Lydia Millet, Mohammed Hanif, Rachel Bronson, Theodore Postol,

Taking stock of our nuclear present

The Origins of Speech

by Tom Wolfe,

In the beginning was Chomsky

Never Never Man

by Laurencia Perales Blum,

From “Severe Growing-Up Phobia,” a paper that was coauthored by Laurencia Perales Blum and published in Case Reports in Psychiatry, in 2014. The paper discusses a Mexican boy who suffered…

The Bed-Rest Hoax

by Alexandra Kleeman,

The case against a venerable pregnancy treatment

Motes from Underground

by Peter Andrey Smith,

Will cave soil save us from drug-resistant superbugs?

The Transhuman Condition

by John Markoff,

By John Markoff, from Machines of Loving Grace, out this month from Ecco Books. Markoff has been a technology and business reporter for the New York Times since 1988. Bill…

From the titles of computer-science papers published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and retracted after it was discovered that they were written by software that generates fake…

Thirty Million Gallons Under the Sea

by Antonia Juhasz,

Following the trail of BP’s oil in the Gulf of Mexico

The Quietest Place in the Universe

by Kent Meyers,

Digging for dark matter in an abandoned mine

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Moon Shots

Running to the Grave

Destroyer of Worlds

The Origins of Speech

Never Never Man

The Bed-Rest Hoax

Motes from Underground

The Transhuman Condition

Bot for Teacher

Thirty Million Gallons Under the Sea

The Quietest Place in the Universe

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Moon Shots

Running to the Grave

Destroyer of Worlds

The Origins of Speech

Never Never Man

The Bed-Rest Hoax

Motes from Underground

The Transhuman Condition

Bot for Teacher

Thirty Million Gallons Under the Sea

The Quietest Place in the Universe

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