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COMMENTARY
Robots serving humans are the coming wave. And the West will have to decide their place in society.
BOOK REVIEW
Stephen Hawking and Susskind, two titans of theoretical physics, slug it out over whether or not information is lost forever once it enters a black hole.
BOOK REVIEW
A year in the life of a major New York City hospital
BOOK REVIEW
The dark side of discovery
BOOK REVIEW
A mother's meditation on the death of her 5-year-old daughter is so raw and compelling, you feel you can't look -- yet you can't turn away.
BOOK REVIEW
The destruction of Lisbon by a major earthquake in 1755 and its repercussions in Enlightenment Europe.
BOOK REVIEW
A mathematician shares his love of numbers, grids and graphs.
BOOK REVIEW
On a millennial path with a caribou herd in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
BOOK REVIEW
One woman's story about defying the breast cancer gene.
BOOK REVIEW
An epic adventure in living green.
BOOK REVIEW
A father tries to bring his comic-book-loving son out of a coma.
BOOK REVIEW
The scientific exploration of human sexuality.
BOOK REVIEW
'Newton' by Peter Ackroyd
The Writing Life
In 'The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces From an Active Life' and 'American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau,' the writer keeps our eyes on the argument.
BOOK REVIEW
Matthew Parker's book tells the epic story of the building of the Panama Canal.
BOOK REVIEW
Law would encourage development of alternative energy, authors claim
BOOK REVIEW
What's your sexual fantasy?
BOOK REVIEW
How the British built an empire on rubber seeds smuggled from Brazil.
BOOK REVIEW
A scientific exploration into the world of phasers, force fields, teleportation and time travel.