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- Psychology
Video mayhem enlivens decision making
People who play action-oriented video games show improved ability to make quick decisions based on what they see and hear.
- Space
Asteroids miss with astronomers
Close brushes with small objects like the ones that swept past Earth on Wednesday are actually fairly common.
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Fire & Ice
Volcanoes and frozen lands make an explosive combo.
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Rust Never Sleeps
A new flare-up in an age-old battle between wheat and a fungal killer.
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A New View of Gravity
Entropy and information may be crucial concepts for explaining roots of familiar force.
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Dry air might boost flu transmission
Germs prefer an environment that’s cool, dry and UV-free, experiments suggest.
- Chemistry
Cockroach brains, coming to a pharmacy near you
Insect tissue extracts show antibacterial activity in lab experiments.
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Science Future for September 25, 2010
September 25Free admission day to 17 museums in Houston. See www.houstonmuseumdistrict.org September 30Peter Gleick gives an evening talk in San Francisco on Bottled & Sold, his book about the bottled water industry. Ages 21 and up. See www.calacademy.org October 4 – 6 Nobel Prizes announced for medicine or physiology, physics and chemistry. Go to http://nobelprize.org
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Science Past from the issue of September 24, 1960
SCLEROSIS AND COSMIC RAYS — Radiation bombarding the earth from space may be a factor in the occurrence of multiple sclerosis, the Harvard University neurologist Dr. John S. Barlow believes.… Dr. Barlow’s statistical study of the distribution of multiple sclerosis shows that the frequencies of occurrence of the disease vary systematically with geomagnetic latitude. The […]
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Book Review: Islam, Science, and the Challenge of History by Ahmad Dallal
Review by Tom Siegfried.
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Bulletproof Feathers by Robert Allen, ed.
Photos and illustrations highlight how nature inspires technology, from airplane wings that change shape to stainproof fabrics. BULLETPROOF FEATHERS BY ROBERT ALLEN, ED. University of Chicago Press, 2010, 192 p., $35.
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What’s Eating You? People and Parasites by Eugene H. Kaplan
An ecologist takes readers on an engaging, if sometimes squirm-worthy, tour of the world’s hangers-on. WHAT’S EATING YOU? BY EUGENE H. KAPLAN Princeton University Press, 2010, 302 p., $26.95.
