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- Health & Medicine
Vision: The risks of being too fat or too tall
Excess weight or height can have a blinding impact, fostering the development of cataracts.
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So some neo-Darwinist DNA researchers found that a few genes link a shrew and an elephant (“Genes seem to link unlikely relatives,” SN: 1/6/01, p. 4). Indeed, they are certain that all our other senses (like perceived morphology and such) should be overruled and their new evolutionary story accepted over all other stories. Russell Husted […]
- Paleontology
Genes Seem to Link Unlikely Relatives
Genetic markers on three proteins suggest a common African ancestor for elephants, aardvarks, elephant shrews, golden moles, and other animals.
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Cell Atlas
Spectacularly colorful, detailed microscope images of subcellular structures and organelles, from the nucleus to the Golgi apparatus, enliven this fantastic voyage into a monkey’s kidney cell. Presented by the Imaging Technology Group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, this online atlas provides not only a variety of images but also information on how the […]
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Quantum Special Issue : PDF Download page
All files are saved as PDFs. Please download Adobe’s Acrobat Reader to view these files. Clash of the quantum tıtans (Tom Siegfried)/Zombie cat (Alexandra Witze) (Alexandra Witze)/Quantum weirdnessPDF 888KB Everyday entanglement (Laura Sanders)/A spooky link/75 years of entanglement (Alexandra Witze)/Quantum weirdness in actionPDF 1.18MB
- Health & Medicine
Lupus in Depth
The Lupus Foundation of America provides a comprehensive Web site about this autoimmune disease, which affects up to 1.5 million people in the United States. The site offers information on the kinds of lupus, causes, symptoms, testing, and treatment. Students and researchers may also find it useful to check detailed accounts of ongoing studies. Go […]
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Special cosmic edition: PDF download page
All files are saved as PDFs. Please download Adobe’s Acrobat Reader to view these files. Cosmic questions, answers pending: Complete packagePDF 2.61MB Mission: reveal the secrets of the universePDF 555KB Pre-Bang branes and bubbles | By Ron Cowen PDF 546KB In the dark | By Alexandra Witze PDF 328KB Strung together | By Matt Crenson […]
