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Health & Medicine
Body & Brain
When the brain learns to feel pain, kids’ effect on paternal testosterone and more in this week’s news.
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Space
Atom & Cosmos
The source of the Milky Way’s spirals, a new way to spot gravitational waves and more in this week’s news.
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Earth
Earth & Environment
Toxic consequences of solar power, enduring effects of ancient landslides and more in this week's news.
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Life
Genes & Cells
Microscopic murderers caught dealing poison, fighting aging with hibernation and more in this week's news.
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Health & Medicine
Body & Brain
Staving off cartilage damage, a better weapon against sleeping sickness and more in this week's news.
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Space
Atom & Cosmos
Black holes could make the sun jiggle, nanodiamonds' origin and more in this week's news.
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Earth
Earth/Environment
Sweet pollution, toxic fumes from dry-cleaned clothes and more in this week’s news.
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Life
Evolution should be taught to all students
The antievolution movement in science education, which gained national attention in the 1920s, lives on in different forms.
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Letters
New light on sunshine vitamin Regarding the article “The power of D” (SN: 7/16/11, p. 22), I was very surprised that there was no mention of the positive effects of this vitamin on the debilitating effects of depression. I have lived in northern latitudes between upstate New York and now Vermont since my birth in […]