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- Animals
Invasion of the salmon
Chinook salmon, dwindling in the United States, go wild in South America.
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- Health & Medicine
Take a nap
A nap is the most effective way to combat an after-lunch slump, but caffeine will help too.
- Paleontology
Ancient burrows
Triassic-era sediments unearthed in Antarctica reveal the well-preserved lair of a four-legged, mammal-like reptile.
- Paleontology
A mammoth divide
Woolly mammoths roamed Siberia in two distinct clans, and the split between the groups, scientists say, is surprisingly deep, occurring more than 1 million years ago.
- Health & Medicine
Sun up
Men with lower concentrations of vitamin D have higher risk of heart attack.
- Life
Simple body, complex blueprints
Genes key to the development of modern animals' body plans show up in primitive-looking comb jellies.
- Health & Medicine
Wake up and smell the java
The smell of coffee leads to changes in gene activity in sleep-deprived rats, hinting at the molecular basis for the relaxing effect of the aroma seen in experiments.
- Archaeology
Acrobat’s last tumble
Sacrificial offerings in an ancient Mesopotamian building included a beheaded acrobat, a new skeletal analysis suggests.
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From Science News Letter, June 21, 1958
New Shock Treatment — Neither electric stimulation nor convulsion may be necessary components in the electroshock treatment of certain types of mental illness…. A group of 97 mental patients … were assigned at random to one of five treatment groups: 1. conventional electroshock therapy (EST); 2. a combination of EST and the drug, anectine; 3. […]
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Science Future
June 30–July 3 The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition. Visit www.summerscience.org.uk/ July 6–10 Growers and researchers gather in Romania, for the European Association for Potato Research’s four-day congress. Visit www.eapr2008-brasov.com August 1 Total solar eclipse visible in parts of Canada, Greenland, Russia and China. Visit eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse.html SN Onlinewww.sciencenews.org
