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Prepared brains achieve insight
Sudden verbal insights arise from distinct brain operations that focus attention and facilitate access to word knowledge.
By Bruce Bower -
Health & MedicineDo acid blockers let microbes reach the colon?
Suppressing stomach acid while taking antibiotics may allow drug-resistant bacteria to colonize the intestines.
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AstronomyRecord-breaking galaxy
Looking ever deeper into space and farther back in time, astronomers have found a galaxy more distant than any other known in the universe.
By Ron Cowen -
Planetary ScienceWeb Special: Clay magic on Mars
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has just completed a week of picture taking from as low as 300 kilometers above the surface of the Red Planet.