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Storyboard: Inside the Battle to Define Mental Illness - Stick a fork in it: In the long term, the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is done for. Psychotherapist Gary Greenberg talks with Wired editors about the controversial update of his profession's go-to medical guide.
Bespoke Innovations Makes Beautiful, Custom Prosthetic Legs - Why should amputees have to wear the same, boring prosthetics as one other, day after day? It turns out that they don't, if they buy a new leg from Bespoke Innovations.
Mirror-Image Cells Could Transform Science — or Kill Us All - A team of scientists is re-engineering cells to create a mirror image of life on Earth. Could it bring a new branch of biology, or a new ice age?
Wired Designs a Lab Report You Can Actually Understand - Your lab test results can be baffling. Wired takes a stab at designing better, clearer lab reports.
Science Funding for the Little Guys - Wired takes a closer look at the efforts by nonprofits to help fund smaller-scale scientific research projects.
Gallery: Military's Freakiest Medical Projects - The U.S. military has been on the forefront of medical research for decades. Earlier conflicts spurred discoveries to prevent malaria and typhoid, a sweeping overhaul of triage care and the introduction of skin grafts and morphine.
All Natural: The Breast-Case Scenario for Stem Cell Medicine - Who needs implants? Tissue engineering and a new kind of stem-cell could help the body rebuild itself.
X-Ray Pinup Girls Are Just Pixels (NSFW?) - After a set of sexy X-rays hit the web earlier this year, viewers were left to wonder if they were real. Now we have the answer.
Eerie Ukrainian Salt Mines House Convalescing Asthmatics - The Eastern European practice of speleotherapy claims salt air helps breathing issues, which leads to patients lining the halls of subterranean caves.
Author Simon Singh Puts Up a Fight in the War on Science - Wired speaks to author Simon Singh, who has become a hero to those challenging the pseudoscience surrounding everything from global warming to evolution.