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  1. Humans

    Letters 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 […]

    By Science News
  2. Humans

    From the April 7, 1934, issue

    Pouring the 200-inch glass disk for a new telescope, a new man-ape link, and planetary weather cycles.

    By Science News
  3. Health & Medicine

    Double-Edged Drugs: Anti-inflammatories’ cancer effects vary by brand and tissue type

    New research on anti-inflammatory medications being investigated as cancer treatments indicates that some of these drugs have secondary effects that could enhance or undermine their antitumor activity.