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- Earth
Dried-up California lake gets muddy facial
A new dust-abatement program is transforming the nation's biggest source of respirable dust into a sea of nonpolluting mud.
- Health & Medicine
Protein fragment halts type I diabetes
A new protein-based drug injected into people just starting to show signs of diabetes halts the disease.
- Health & Medicine
Human-cloning claim creates controversy
A biotech company has begun cloning human embryos.
- Astronomy
Craft Probes Alien Planet’s Atmosphere
Astronomers have for the first time detected the atmosphere of a planet that lies well beyond the solar system.
- Health & Medicine
Kawasaki patients show coronary calcium
The heart attack risk associated with Kawasaki disease, a childhood inflammatory disease that can cause aneurysms, may stem from calcium build-up in coronary arteries.
- Health & Medicine
Light blow to chest can be fatal
A light blow to the heart can cause cardiac arrest, even when the blow isn't hard enough to cause injury.
- Health & Medicine
Statins, yes; antioxidants, no
Taking cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins improves the health outlook for patients at risk of heart attack even when these patients aren't considered obvious candidates to receive the treatment.
- Health & Medicine
Cuff therapy boosts growth factor
Cuffs that squeeze the legs of heart patients may relieve angina by boosting growth factors, which help build new blood vessels needed to nourish oxygen-starved heart muscle.
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It smells yellow to me
The colors associated with a smell can influence the brain's perception of the odor.
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Babies babble in just the right way
Infants babble out of the right side of their mouths, suggesting that the infantile sounds are more than noise.
- Animals
The Tropical Majority
The abundant studies of temperate-zone birds may have biased ornithology when it comes to understanding the tropics.
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The article was disappointing on two grounds. First, it was poorly researched, quoting numerous lawyers for farming interests opposed to the Endangered Species Act. Second, it failed to note that most of the growing need for water (as well as virtually all other resources) is closely linked to human population growth that is out of […]
