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  1. Humans

    From the October 30, 1937, issue

    A photographer captures the coming of winter, motion pictures show how cancer spreads through the blood, and engineers get new oil from old Pennsylvania wells.

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  2. Humans

    Machu Picchu’s far-flung residents

    A new chemical analysis of skeletons at the Inca site of Machu Picchu strengthens the idea that the royal estate was maintained by retainers who had been uprooted from homes throughout the empire.

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  3. Humans

    From the April 2, 1938, issue

    The science of tall tales, a fluorine-spouting volcano under ice, and viruses show signs of life.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Hurt-Knees Rx: Surgical method promotes ligament regeneration

    A new artificial knee ligament that sparks regeneration of natural tissue could eventually make recovering from knee-repair surgery less painful and debilitating.

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  5. Animals

    Built for Speed

    Animals would prove fierce competitors at the Olympics — if only they would stay in their lanes.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    New agent to spy clogged arteries

    To improve the detection of harmful arterial plaques, researchers have modeled a nanoparticle on a natural material: good cholesterol.

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  7. Chemistry

    Gene dispensers

    A new gene therapy technique releases genetic material from successive nanoscale layers of DNA as sheets of polyester that hold them in place slowly degrade.

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  8. Humans

    From the May 1, 1937, issue

    A vitamin image, sugar versus alcohol, and patterns in cells.

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    I am amazed that this article concluded that “Scientists have a long way to go to explain why” prey animals play dead. As a veterinarian, I have learned that there are separate centers in the brain dealing with predatory behavior and with hunger. The effect seems to be that predatory behavior, by itself, is satisfying, […]

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  10. Animals

    Why Play Dead?

    Common wisdom dictates that playing dead discourages predators, but researchers are now thinking harder about how, or whether, that strategy really works.

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  11. Humans

    Letters from the December 23 & 30, 2006, issue of Science News

    Playing dead is a lively topic I am amazed that “Why Play Dead?” (SN: 10/28/06, p. 280) concluded that “Scientists have a long way to go to explain why” prey animals play dead. As a veterinarian, I have learned that there are separate centers in the brain dealing with predatory behavior and with hunger. The […]

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  12. Consciousness in the Raw

    Observations of children born without most of the brain's outer layer, or cortex, and evidence from animal studies suggest that a basic form of consciousness may arise from the brain stem alone.

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