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Hormone dulls a tongue’s taste for sweets
The hormone leptin may suppress the tongue's ability to taste sugary substances.
- Animals
Snapping shrimp whip up a riot of bubbles
High-speed video and fancy math demonstrate that snapping shrimp make so much noise by popping bubbles.
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The brain spreads its sights in the deaf
Altered brain activity in deaf people may strengthen their peripheral vision.
- Health & Medicine
Fighting cancer from the cabbage patch
Extracts of foods belonging to the cabbage family can block the action of estrogen, a hormone that fuels many cancers.
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Medicine needs a new paradigm. The findings described in this article suggest something better than potentially important agents and a new class of drugs to reduce cancer risk, as observed by Barnett Zumoff. If you want to reduce your cancer risk, simply do what the Polish women mentioned in the story do: Eat more cabbage, […]
- Health & Medicine
Nerves in heart show damage in Parkinson’s
Some patients with Parkinson's disease also have destruction of nerve terminals in the heart that affects blood pressure.
- Materials Science
Titanium makes move toward mainstream
Inventors of a new process for producing titanium claim that their method can reduce the metal's cost to one-third its current price.
- Health & Medicine
Cells profilerate in magnetic fields
Magnetic fields such as those found within a few feet of outdoor electric-power lines could make cells that are vulnerable to cancer behave like tumors.
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Your cover article on using magnetic fields to map and possibly treat brain disorders (“Snap, crackle, and feel good?” SN: 9/23/00, p. 204: Snap, Crackle, and Feel Good?) contrasted sharply with this article a few pages earlier about magnetic fields inducing cells to develop tumors. I would strongly suggest that both the science community and […]
- Physics
Most-Wanted Particle Appears, Perhaps
Hints of the Higgs boson—the crucial and last undetected fundamental particle predicted by the central theory of particle physics—have cropped up at a particle collider in Switzerland just as the machine is slated to be dismantled to make room for a more powerful collider.
- Earth
Nonstick but not nontoxic
A proliferating pollutant shed by nonstick products and surfactants caused neonatal deaths and developmental impairments in tests with rodents.
- Earth
Testing computers’ hazardous potential
The approved test for evaluating the ability of wastes to leach toxic metals fails to identify lead risks from some electronics equipment.
