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Body & Brain
Fat joins suite of tastes, plus crossword vision, metastasis clues and more in this week’s news.
By Science News - Tech
Social Networks
Power networks in Congress, Twitter’s crystal ball and iPhone contagion in news from an MIT workshop on information in social media.
By Science News - Humans
Traditional Chinese medicine: Big questions
Just because traditional Chinese medicines have been used for a long time is no guarantee they’re efficacious or safe. How would we know? It turns out this question is hard to answer — even for the Chinese.
By Janet Raloff - Life
Genetics offers more hints about autism
Three studies illustrate why a single cause for autism spectrum disorders has been so difficult to pin down.
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- Health & Medicine
Drug prevents some breast cancers
A hormone-blocking compound can waylay some malignancies in healthy women who are deemed at risk.
By Nathan Seppa - Humans
Site hints at Asian roots for human genus
An early Homo species inhabited the Caucasus region 1.85 million years ago, casting doubt on its proposed African origin.
By Bruce Bower - Humans
Humans
Lewis and Clark’s gale encounter, nixing college lectures, divorce’s toll on kids and more in this week’s news
By Science News - Tech
Information flow can reveal dirty deeds
An analysis of Enron e-mails reveals that corrupt networks have a distinctive shape.
- Health & Medicine
A year adds up to big changes in brain
Third grade brings big shifts in how kids use their heads to solve math problems.
- Humans
Association for Psychological Science meeting
News includes likeable look-alikes, seeing clearer through meditation and bouncing back from bad events.
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