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The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9-11 Commission, was created by congressional legislation and the signature of President George W. Bush in late 2002. This independent, bipartisan commission had the task of producing a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the attack, including preparedness and immediate response, and providing recommendations designed to guard against future attacks.

Albert Einstein created his most famous theory amid personal strife, political tension and a scientific rivalry that almost cost him the glory of his discovery.

We already have the means to skip ahead in time, but going backward is a different wormhole.

Many human species have inhabited Earth. But ours is the only one that colonized the entire planet. A new hypothesis explains why.

"The Proton Radius Problem": Scientists may be witnessing the signs of a whole new realm of physics. "Remembrance of All Things Past": Some people can recall details from their distant past as if the events happened yesterday. "An Indirect Way to Tame Cancer": Researchers are fighting cells and a material called the matrix in an effort to combat cancer. "Mind Games": Video games could transform education.

Self-control is not just a puritanical virtue. It is a key psychological trait that breeds success at work and play - and in overcoming life’s hardships.

Neuroscience has demonstrated that meditation has tangible and significant benefits for both body and mind.

Your nightly rest turns out to affect your mind and health more than anyone suspected.

The invisible dark matter particles that dominate the universe may come in strange and varied forms.

Einstein's assertion that God does not play dice with the universe has been misinterpreted.

In an unexpected twist, two antibodies designed to fight Alzheimer’s disease instead made nerve cells in mice misbehave more.The results, published online November 9 in Nature Neuroscience, highlight how little is known about how these drugs actually work, says study coauthor Marc Aurel Busche of Technical University Munich. “We need to understand what these antibodies do in the brains of patients better,” he says.

In my quest to explore the unknown frontier inside my own body, I stumbled upon one of the most intractable problems facing science.

A clue to the evolution of menopause may come from older female killer whales who often take the lead in salmon hunts.

Technique could ID materials for better solar cells and batteries or more effective medicines.

Evolutionary biologists are trying to attack bacteria in a new way.

Using high-frequency sound waves to rev up tiny air bubbles in the brain appears to treat symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease in mice. The findings suggest that a similar technique could one day be used to treat the disease in humans.

The odds of finding another planet with Earth’s exact mineral composition are astronomically long, a mineralogist using tools borrowed from ecology calculates. Reproducing Earth’s mineral makeup elsewhere has a 1 in 10200 chance of success, Robert Hazen of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., said December 6.

Organic electronics could provide noninvasive health monitoring.

An astonishing discovery is forcing scientists to reconsider whether life can exist in the most extreme places on Earth and in space.

In this essay from the pages of Scientific American Mind magazine, "Do Gays Have A Choice?", psychologist Robert Epstein writes that science has a clear and surprising answer. This article originally appeared in the February/March 2006 issue.