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Health & Medicine

Stents Stumble

After a meteoric rise, stents coated with drugs to prevent renarrowing of clogged arteries have begun to fall from favor among cardiologists.

Earth

Storm Center

Scientists aboard planes that flew into the cores of Katrina and other hurricanes in 2005 collected unprecedented data on the structure and development of the massive storms.

Humans

Letters from the June 23, 2007, issue of Science News

Bad start In “Violent Justice: Adult system fails young offenders” (SN: 4/21/07, p. 243), an association is found between young offenders being tried as adults and increased criminal offenses later. The implication is made that one thing causes the other. Perhaps a better interpretation of the data would be that, because not every young offender […]

Humans

From the June 12, 1937, issue

Waterflow downstream of a dam, the shape of an asteroid, and connections between wallpaper patterns and crystal structures.

Math

Summing Up Literature

Statistical analyses of literary texts provide new insights about novels.

Planetary Science

Shifting Ocean: Tipsy Mars may explain undulating shoreline

Evidence that Mars once had a vast ocean gains support from a proposal that the planet was tipped halfway over on its side several billion years ago.

Health & Medicine

Vaccine Harvest: Cholera fighter could be easy to swallow

An edible vaccine, made by genetically engineering rice, safeguards mice against the toxin produced by cholera bacteria.

Tech

Improbability Drive: Focus on rare actions speeds chemical simulations

A new algorithm speeds simulations of chemical reactions by focusing on rare but crucial molecular motions.

Plants

Easy There, Bro: A plant can spot and favor close kin

A little beach plant can recognize its siblings as long as their roots grow in nearby soil.