Humans
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
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- Health & Medicine
Sharing valuable real estate
Human brains rewire when people lose a sense, but a new study of people who have regained vision shows that the rewired areas retain their old abilities.
- Materials Science
Like the Nobel, Only Norwegian
Two weeks from now, an astrophysicist, neuroscientist, and nanoscience researcher will each be named to receive $1 million Kavli Prizes.
- Health & Medicine
Drugs: Still bad for you
Heavy cannabis smokers have increased blood levels of a protein linked to heart disease.
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- Health & Medicine
BOOK REVIEW | Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life
Review by Elizabeth Quill.
- Math
BOOK LIST | Guesstimation: Solving the World’s Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin
Learn to use simple arithmetic to approximate anything. Princeton Univ. Press, 2008, 300 p. $19.95 GUESSTIMATION
- Health & Medicine
Testing nanoparticles
Testing the toxicity of dozens of nanoparticles en masse may offer a faster track to medical applications.
- Health & Medicine
Pollution and blood clots
Inhaling tiny pollution particles, even at concentrations allowed in urban air, appears to increase the risk that an individual’s veins will develop potentially lethal blood clots.
- Health & Medicine
Acupuncture as Placebo
There may be some treatments for which a true placebo is unavailable.
- Humans
Future scientists
More than 1,500 high school students will gather in Atlanta to flex their mental muscles at the 2008 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.
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Science in the City
The inaugural World Science Festival kicks off in New York May 28 and features a variety of events celebrating the role of science in all aspects of modern life, culture and the arts.
