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  1. 19862

    People don’t need another reason to shun fat people. This group represents the last scapegoat for righteous discrimination in our image-obsessed society. There are myriad reasons a person becomes obese. Friendship is not one of them. Shawn DehneLittleton, Colo. As such studies progress, it will be interesting to learn if the opposite—weight loss—is also influenced […]

    By Science News
  2. Math

    A Twist on the Möbius Band

    The twisted, single-sided loop known as a Möbius band, when made from a stiff material such as paper, takes on a complicated shape that researchers have finally calculated.

    By Julie Rehmeyer
  3. Humans

    Universities seek armchair astronomers

    Scientists are recruiting online help from the public to classify the shapes of 1 million galaxies in never-before-viewed photographs.