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• Scientists Hope to Bring a Galápagos Tortoise Species Back to Life

• The Harrowing Story of the Nagasaki Bombing Mission

• A Hunt for a Sprite on a Midsummer's Night

• Computing Crime and Punishment

• To Advance, Search for a Black Cat in a Dark Room

• Mind Games: Sometimes a White Coat Isn't Just a White Coat

• Roger Kennedy, Who Was Parks Chief Under Clinton, Dies at 85

• Why Vanishing Sharks Deserve Attention, and Even Affection

• A Defect That May Lead to a Masterpiece

• Study Spells Out Spread of Brain Illness in Animals

• Researchers Train Minds to Move Matter

• Spinal Shocks Ease Parkinson's in Mice

• Willem Kolff, Inventor of Kidney and Heart Machines, Dies at 97

• Math Backs Limited Profiling in Airport Screening

• In a Host of Ailments, Seeing a Brain Out of Rhythm

• A Disease That Allowed Torrents of Creativity

• Gender Identity and Phantom Genitalia

• What a Rodent Can Do With a Rake in Its Paw

• Flesh Made Soul

• Monkey's Thoughts Propel Robot, a Step That May Help Humans

• When the Senses Become Confused

• Studies Report Inducing Out-of-Body Experience

• Study Suggests Meditation Can Help Train Attention

• If You Want to Know if Spot Loves You So, It's in His Tail

• A Small Part of the Brain, and Its Profound Effects

• Ancient Crash, Epic Wave

• Gone for Decades, Jaguars Steal Back to the Southwest

• Out-of-Body Experience? Your Brain Is to Blame

• Study Points to a Solution for Dread: Distraction

• Vibrating Insoles Help People Regain Balance

• Cells That Read Minds

• This Is Your Brain Under Hypnosis

• Serious Riders, Your Bicycle Seat May Affect Your Love Life

• Discovering That Denial of Paralysis Is Not Just a Problem of the Mind

• A Neuron With Halle Berry's Name on It

• What Other People Say May Change What You See

• In Tasmania, the Devil Now Faces Its Own Hell

• New Theory Places Origin of Diabetes in an Age of Icy Hardships

• Colicky Baby? Read This Before Calling an Exorcist

• Minds of Their Own: Birds Gain Respect

• New Tools to Help Patients Reclaim Damaged Senses

• Drought Unearths a Buried Treasure

• If Your Brain Has a 'Buy Button,' What Pushes It?

• Deconstructing the Gaze of Rembrandt

• When the Brain Says, 'Don't Get Too Close'