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Autism leaves kids lost in face
Brain-wave evidence indicates that 3- to 4-year-old children diagnosed with autism can't tell their mothers' faces from those of female strangers.
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Cries and Greetings
Baboon intimacy and detachment present vexing clues.
- Humans
From the August 9, 1930, issue
A FISH WITH HANDS A fish of more than ordinary piscine talent is sometimes found in the drifting masses of gulfweed or Sargassum in the great mid-Atlantic eddy. It is only a little fish, a couple of inches long, but it can use its two pectoral fins for some of the functions of hands. It […]
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Possible Alzheimer’s vaccine seems safe
A vaccine intended to slow or prevent the devastation of Alzheimer's disease appears promising, according to preliminary tests in people.
- Health & Medicine
Checkmate for a Child-Killer?
If a new generation of vaccines pans out, the days of rotavirus, which kills at least 450,000 infants and children every year by causing severe diarrhea, may be numbered.
- Health & Medicine
From rabies virus to anti-HIV vaccine
Researchers working with mice are trying to fashion an HIV vaccine by using a weakened rabies virus to bring an HIV glycoprotein to the attention of the immune system.
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From the May 7, 1932, issue
MONKEYS GET BALD LIKE MEN It is no longer fair to blame your barber or beautician for that bald spot; nor can you lay your gray hairs onto worry over your childrens naughtiness or your brokers shortsightedness. Getting bald or going gray are just primate traits, like walking on two legs instead of four, according […]
- Science & Society
Science News of the Year 2003
A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the year 2003.
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Biology of rank: Social status sets up monkeys’ cocaine use
Male monkeys' position in the social pecking order influences their brain chemistry in ways that promote either resistance or susceptibility to the reinforcing effects of cocaine.
- Health & Medicine
What Activates AIDS?
New studies suggest that a natural process called immune activation—the signaling that alerts immune cells of foreign invaders—plays a key role in explaining why infection with the human immunodeficiency virus progresses to AIDS more quickly in some people than in others.
- Animals
Leashing the Rattlesnake
Even in the 21st century, there's still room for old-fashioned, do-it-yourself ingenuity in experimental design for studying animal behavior.
- Humans
Science News of the Year 2003
A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the year 2003.
