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  1. Health & Medicine

    Weighty Evidence

    Connections between the family of insulin hormones and cancer have been suspected for more than 2 decades, and today, drug companies are testing anticancer drugs based on the actions of an insulin cousin.

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  2. Math

    Math on Display

    Visualizations of mathematics create remarkable artwork.

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  3. Humans

    Letters from the February 16, 2008, issue of Science News

    Inert placebo? Regarding “Getting the Red Out” (SN: 1/19/08, p. 35): While drug companies wish to market their products, my attention is drawn to the fact that 1 in 8 of the control group of psoriasis patients was cured by placebo effect. Who will investigate the process therein? Is there a market for it? Carson […]

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  4. Humans

    From the February 5, 1938, issue

    Tiny shells test lenses, the rules of radioactivity, and discovering new lunar terrain.