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Cold war nuclear bomb tests let us pinpoint the age of murder victims and individual brain cells - but thanks to the test ban, we're running out of fallout (full text available to subscribers)

If research on the human brain is to come close to meeting the lofty hopes many researchers and government bodies have for it, one thing is going to have to change: Brain scanning will have to become a process that can b...

Updated optical tweezers can pluck objects as small as viruses --

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This spring, the racehorse California Chrome won the first two legs of the Triple Crown. If he wins, he will be the first Triple Crown winner in 36 years and only the 12th horse in history to do so.

New Zealand's winter storm, 3d printed blood vessels and California's tule fog are just a few of our favorite images in Science this week.