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  1. Health & Medicine

    Calling Death’s Bluff

    New methods of assessing a person's risk of sudden death due to a heart arrhythmia may enable doctors to better identify which patients need to receive an implanted defibrillator.

    By Ben Harder
  2. Humans

    Letters from the September 23, 2006, issue of Science News

    Moo juiced? I live in Northern California, where forest-biomass power plants are common (“Radiation Redux: Forest fires remobilize fallout from bomb tests,” SN: 7/15/06, p. 38). One power plant takes the ashes that result and places them where cows forage. I’m wondering to what level of concentration this process will accumulate the cesium in organic […]

    By Science News
  3. Humans

    From the September 12, 1936, issue

    A babe on the moon, antiseptics from oat hulls, and spinning isotopes apart.