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The Scariest Ideas in Science

Undead viruses! Killer foxes! Soldiers who never sleep! This is no horror movie-it's today's scientists at their most daring

Maybe we saw The Andromeda Strain a few too many times in our formative years, but we can´t help shivering when we hear about microbiologists reanimating long-dormant lethal viruses. And those biologists working to make human limbs grow back: Haven´t we seen that film?

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Fresh Fears Over Cellphones

Neuroscience: A Swedish study links mobile phones to brain damage. In rats, anyway.

The safety of cellphones has been called into question, again. This time the scientific community is paying very close attention.


Last summer neurosurgeon Leif Salford and colleagues at Lund University

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