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- Health & Medicine
Studies suggest how salad may protect heart
Lutein, a yellow pigment in many fruits and vegetables, may inhibit processes that jump-start the development of atherosclerosis.
- Chemistry
Chemists decorate nanotubes for usefulness
Researchers have developed a new technique for attaching groups of atoms to the sides of carbon nanotubes, creating compounds with extraordinary strength and conductivity.
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Babies may thrive on wordless conversation
Although unable to say a word, 4-month-olds coordinate the timing of their vocalizations with those of adult partners in conversational ways that may have implications for social and intellectual development.
- Health & Medicine
Leukemia overpowers drug in two ways
Researchers discover why the anticancer drug Gleevec, also called STI-571, helps many patients who have chronic myelogenous leukemia but not those who have entered the crisis stage of the disease.
