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  1. Humans

    Letters from the October 6, 2007, issue of Science News

    Cat scam? Oscar the cat possibly does identify dying patients (“Grim Reap Purr: Nursing home feline senses the end,” SN: 7/28/07, p. 53), but the story you printed presents anecdotal rather than scientific evidence and does not belong in a science magazine. Julie EnevoldsenSeattle, Wash. Correlation is not causation. Could it not be that, somehow, […]

    By Science News
  2. Agriculture

    They fertilized with what?

    Fields fertilized with human urine yield bigger cabbages.

    By Janet Raloff
  3. Health & Medicine

    Lonely white cells

    In chronically lonely people, white blood cells show abnormal gene activity that may affect health through immune responses.