News in Brief
- Health & Medicine
Highlights from the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, Los Angeles, November 3-7
Multivitamins may not reduce heart attacks, two drugs could protect heart from chemo damage, and more.
- Neuroscience
Highlights from Neuroscience 2012
A collection of reports from the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, New Orleans.
- Health & Medicine
Body & Brain
Blood pressure decreases with apnea treatment, vitamins fail to protect against colorectal cancer, and more news from this week’s medical journals.
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- Space
Atom & Cosmos
The gassy halo engulfing the Milky Way, a comet in the neighborhood, and extraterrestrial rocks as the source of life on Earth.
- Chemistry
Japanese lab lays claim to element 113
With the latest observation of a superheavy atom, a chemical catfight looms over who will get to name it.
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- Life
International Congress of Neuroethology, College Park, Md., August 5–10
Dung beetle gaits and the whine of a mosquito's flight
- Earth
Earth & Environment
Soot’s contributions to global warming may be overestimated, and unusual source of oceans’ methane discovered.
- Space
Highlights from the IAU Meeting
A collection of reports from the 28th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union, Beijing.
- Health & Medicine
19th International AIDS Conference
Highlights from the AIDS meeting, July 22-27, Washington, D.C.
- Health & Medicine
19th International AIDS Conference
Highlights from the AIDS meeting, July 22-27, Washington, D.C.
