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Mechanical engineers have developed a system that greatly decreases the amount of toxic hydrocarbons a car releases. (p. 206)Published: September 23rd, 2006; Vol.170 #13Found in: Technology
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Home / News / September 9th, 2006; Vol.170 #11 / Size Matters: Biosensors behave oddly when very smallThere might be a limit to how small physicists should build tiny sensors that detect viruses and molecules. (p. 164)Published: September 9th, 2006; Vol.170 #11Found in: Technology -
Fossils trapped in amber provide evidence that the Amazonian rainforest dates back 10 to 15 million years. (p. 150)Published: September 2nd, 2006; Vol.170 #10Found in: Paleontology -
In the aftermath of a cosmic crash between two galaxies, researchers say they've detected invisible dark matter for the first time. (p. 131)Published: August 26th, 2006; Vol.170 #9Found in: Astronomy -
Giving patients placebo pills for a week before they begin to participate in trials of antidepressants can help clinicians gauge how well they will respond to the actual medication. (p. 142)Published: August 26th, 2006; Vol.170 #9Found in: Behavior
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Home / News / August 19th, 2006; Vol.170 #8 / Fewer Drugs, Same Outcome: Simpler HIV regimens are effectiveIn two studies, AIDS clinicians found that standard three-drug regimens fight HIV as well as four-drug treatments do, and that a single drug might maintain a patient's health once the virus is suppressed. (p. 115)Published: August 19th, 2006; Vol.170 #8Found in: Biomedicine
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Home / News / August 12th, 2006; Vol.170 #7 / Total Recall: Drug shows long-lasting boosts of memory in ratsResearch in rats shows that an experimental drug completely regenerates parts of the brain crucial to forming memories. (p. 101)Published: August 12th, 2006; Vol.170 #7Found in: Biomedicine
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Home / News / August 5th, 2006; Vol.170 #6 / Racial IQ Gap Narrows: Blacks gain 4 to 7 points on whitesAfrican Americans reduced the racial gap on IQ-test scores by about one-third between 1972 and 2002. (p. 85)Published: August 5th, 2006; Vol.170 #6Found in: Science & Society
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The remarkably successful cancer drug imatinib might cause heart failure in some patients. (p. 69)Published: July 29th, 2006; Vol.170 #5Found in: Biomedicine
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Obese adults are 25 percent more likely than normal-weight adults to develop one of four mood or anxiety disorders. (p. 78)Published: July 29th, 2006; Vol.170 #5Found in: Biomedicine
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Home / News / July 22nd, 2006; Vol.170 #4 / Deadly Disorder: Imagined-ugliness illness yields high suicide rateThe suicide rate among people with a psychiatric disorder that causes them to perceive themselves as ugly is higher than that among people with major depression. (p. 52)Published: July 22nd, 2006; Vol.170 #4Found in: Behavior
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When punishing criminals, people tend to seek retribution, not deterrence. (p. 61)Published: July 22nd, 2006; Vol.170 #4Found in: Behavior
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People who smoke light cigarettes are much less likely to quit smoking than people who smoke regulars. (p. 20)Published: July 8th, 2006; Vol.170 #2Found in: Behavior
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Home / News / July 1st, 2006; Vol.170 #1 / Sight for 'Saur Eyes: T. rex vision was among nature's bestA study of dinosaur eyes finds that Tyrannosaurus rex had very sophisticated vision that may have helped its predatory abilities. (p. 3)Published: July 1st, 2006; Vol.170 #1Found in: Paleontology -
New observations confirm that magnetic fields provide matter with the last push to plunge into a black hole. (p. 387)Published: June 24th, 2006; Vol.169 #25Found in: Astronomy
