Sharon Begley is senior health and science correspondent at Reuters. She is the coauthor of the 2002 book The Mind and the Brain and the author of the 2007 book Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain.
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Why We're So Clueless About Being Green
You could practically hear a collective groan from enviros across the world yesterday when The New... MORE
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Why Evolution May Favor Irrationality
The fact that humans are subject to all these failures of rational thought seems to make no sense.... MORE
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Some Pharmaceutical Clinical Trial Results Are Buried, Study Shows
Investors interested in pharma stocks and patients eager to know if an experimental drug works have... MORE
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Will This Phone Kill You?
There are many, many ways to screw up experiments on the biological effects of cell-phone... MORE
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America's Dirty Beaches
Tar balls? A sheen of crude? Oil mousse? Amateur hour.... MORE
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Why Summer Vacation Won't Make You Happier
Looking forward to getting away from it all?... MORE
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Scientists Try to Stop Iffy BP Oil-Spill Cleanup
Now that the well appears to be capped, scientists are calling for an end to the knee-jerk and... MORE
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The Trouble With Using Undergrads for Research
Where would psychology be without lab rats—by which I mean American undergraduates?... MORE
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How Intestinal Bacteria May Make You Fat
A growing body of evidence suggests that it’s bacteria, not burgers, that might ultimately lead to... MORE
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The Anti-Lesbian Drug
Genetic engineers, move over: the latest scheme for creating children to a parent's specifications... MORE
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Newspapers Retract 'Climategate' Claims, but Damage Still Done
The controversy over alleged exaggerations of climate science has now been fully debunked, even by... MORE
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Study: Folic Acid Doesn't Cut Heart-Attack Risk
When will we ever learn?... MORE
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Europe's Trade in Illegal African Bushmeat
Scientists estimate nearly 12,000 pounds of illegal bushmeat are smuggled into France from Africa... MORE
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The Science of Aging Brains
The myth of the doddering senior is just that.... MORE
