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AstronomyShades of Venus
On June 8, for the first time in 122 years, the silhouette of Venus will move across the face of the sun.
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MathFrom Number Puzzles to Automata
A high school student plays with numbers and does an award-winning project elucidating the link between automata and divisibility.
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HumansLetters from the April 10, 2004, issue of Science News
Inaction verbs? Regarding “The Brain’s Word Act: Reading verbs revs up motor cortex areas” (SN: 2/7/04, p. 83: The Brain’s Word Act: Reading verbs revs up motor cortex areas), did the researchers image the brains of disabled people who know the meaning of a verb but can’t perform the action, or of people without any […]
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HumansFrom the April 7, 1934, issue
Pouring the 200-inch glass disk for a new telescope, a new man-ape link, and planetary weather cycles.