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- Life
Early stress is contagious in adulthood
A zebra finch’s tough childhood shortens both its life and its mate’s.
- Health & Medicine
Cigarettes cause half of bladder cancers in women
People who smoke are four times as likely to develop the malignancy as people who never smoked, a study finds.
- Space
Atom & Cosmos
Glimmers of dark matter in the Milky Way, galaxies giving birth and more in this week’s news.
- Humans
Financial world dominated by a few deep pockets
Analysis suggests a small number of firms control a big share of global wealth.
- Life
Parkinson’s protein comes in fours
A better understanding of alpha-synuclein's structure could lead to ways of treating or preventing the disease.
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- Planetary Science
White dwarfs gobble Earthlike treats
Astronomers have found elements in the dead stars’ atmospheres that suggest rocky planetary bodies once orbited the stars.
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- Physics
Particle physicists chasing ghosts
Wispy neutrinos could one day explain why matter dominates the universe.
- Humans
Big fish return to Mexican marine park
Most effects of overharvesting reversed within a decade.
- Psychology
Moms talk, daughters’ hormones listen
A familiar voice, but not instant messaging, may trigger a kind of hormonal reassurance in girls.
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Science Past from the issue of August 26, 1961
EARTH ONCE GLOWED — The earth’s surface in its early years of life may have glowed like a beautiful rainbow, shimmering with the colorful array of light emitted by primitive organisms. Light emission may have occurred soon after life appeared on earth, when the atmosphere lacked oxygen…. As small amounts of oxygen appeared in the […]
