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  1. Sexing Brains Down and Up: Early aspirin dose hits male rats below the belt

    Prenatal exposure to a certain class of drugs, which includes aspirin and acetaminophen, leads to adult sexual difficulties in male rats, raising concerns about the use of such drugs by pregnant women.

    By Bruce Bower

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    I don’t want to downplay genuine discovery, but your story about optically reading old records left me a little underwhelmed. The optical playing of records has been available in the commercial market for several years. Just do an Internet search for “laser turntables.” Jerry BoehmSchenectady, N.Y. This is not an especially new invention. A commercial […]

    By Science News
  3. Tech

    Groovy Pictures: Extracting sound from images of old audio recordings

    To preserve songs and words on antique vinyl records and wax cylinders, a new scanning technique maps their grooves, then simulates a stylus moving along those contours to extract high-quality sound.