60-SECOND SCIENCE BLOG
The real McCain-Obama debate over bear DNA
What was John McCain talking about when he started railing about forking over funds to study bear DNA?

FEATURES
Media Bias: Going beyond Fair and Balanced
Despite popular accounts, researchers found that Barack Obama got more negative press coverage than John McCain did in the early summer

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE
Birth of an Ocean: The Evolution of Ethiopia’s Afar Depression
The formation of an ocean is a rare event, yet this geophysical nativity is unfolding today in one of the hottest and most inhospitable corners of the globe. Visit the site in safety through this extraordinary photographic essay
> Related slide show: How Oceans are Born

NEWS
Carbon Dioxide Auction Launches U.S. Effort to Combat Climate Change
Six northeastern states auction off the right to emit global warming pollution

60-SECOND SCIENCE BLOG
It’s not easy being green
Kosher diets are not always ecofriendly

60-SECOND SCIENCE BLOG
Fly (them) to the moon, er, International Space Station
House okays trips for American astronauts on Russian Soyuz spacecraft through 2016

NEWS
The X Chromosome and the Case against Monogamy
New evidence shows that women pass along more genes to kids than men do–and that males historically fathered children with several women

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SPECIAL EDITIONS
Growing Vertical: Skyscraper Farming
Cultivating crops in downtown skyscrapers might save bushels of energy and provide city dwellers with distinctively fresh food
> Related In-Depth Report: Earth 3.0

60-SECOND SCIENCE BLOG
What are near-Earth objects?
Scientists have proposed that the United Nations establish a global network of telescopes to track asteroids and comets at risk of hitting Earth–and, eventually, create a plan to deflect them and evacuate humans in their paths

60-SECOND SCIENCE BLOG
Am I a narcissist?
Ask Facebook–Or me!

ASK THE EXPERTS
Why do we like to dance–And move to the beat?
Columbia University neurologist John Krakauer busts a move and rolls out an answer to this query

60-SECOND SCIENCE BLOG
Greenhouse gas pollution up despite economic downturn
Despite a slowing global economy, carbon dioxide emissions continued to rise in 2007, according to energy use figures from oil company, BP–jumping to 8.47 billion metric tons of the most common greenhouse gas responsible for global warming, or 2.9 percent higher than the 2006 total

60-SECOND SCIENCE PODCAST
Speech Storage Could Reduce Writing
Cheap audio storage combined with searchable audio files could make reading and writing specialties

60-SECOND PSYCH PODCAST
Business, Lies and E-mail
New research finds that business students lie more often in e-mail than when communicating using pen and paper

BRAIN GAMES
Brain Games: The Bells of Notre Dame
This game consists of counting the number of moves necessary for bells to shift from an initial configuration to the desired configuration. Create a plan of action by using your reasoning skills