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- Chemistry
The World of Wine
Improved analytical instruments and powerful computers are now enabling scientists to better determine a chemical fingerprint for products from different wine-producing regions.
- Health & Medicine
The brew for a slimmer you
Green tea contains a compound that triggers the body to burn more fat.
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This article would better have been titled “Deprivation of dietary antioxidants leads to selective tumor inhibition.” The issue of antioxidants and cancer is an area of controversy, but the great preponderance of literature on this subject supports the use of antioxidants as sole therapy and with conventional oncologic care. These effects have had limited usefulness […]
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Antioxidants may help cancers thrive
By curbing a natural process that rids the body of damage, antioxidant vitamins can aid cancer growth.
- Earth
Wretched weather sealed explorer’s fate
Unusually low temperatures hindered Robert Falcon Scott's polar expedition in 1912.
- Earth
Taking a mountain’s measure
A survey of Mount Everest alters its official elevation to 29,035 feet.
- Humans
An Artist’s Timely Riddles
A team of researchers demonstrates that there may be much more to the art of Marcel Duchamp than meets the casual, or even critical, eye.
- Math
Setting Records Randomly
A wide variety of factors can influence the winning time of a race. For a given event over the course of a year, for example, the results may depend on the quality of the runners, the race location, weather conditions, and so on. In a 1985 article in the Journal of the American Statistical Association, […]
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- Earth
Mapping the Frozen Sky: Study looks at clouds from both sides now
By combining simultaneous observations from satellites and ground-based instruments, scientists can generate a three-dimensional map of the size and distribution of ice particles in a cirrus cloud.
- Animals
Male bats primp daily for odor display
For the first time, scientists have described the daily routine of male sac-winged bats gathering to freshen the odor pouches on their wings.
- Health & Medicine
Stem cells repair rat spinal cord damage
Using embryonic stem cells from mice, researchers restored some movement in paralyzed rats that had undergone a crippling spinal injury.
