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Letters from the June 16, 2007, issue of Science News
Bigger picture Reading “Pictures Posing Questions: The next steps in photography could blur reality” (SN: 4/7/07, p. 216), I was struck by the similarity between the image that used a cone-shaped mirror and the images you get from gravitational lensing. As the same data are available in both types of images, it ought to be […]
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From the June 5, 1937, issue
All lit up in Paris, changing elements, and cheap, accurate lenses.
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Super-Size Mice—Fast Food Hurts Rodents
When rodents eat the equivalent of a fast-food diet, they develop health problems similar to those seen in the movie Super Size Me.
By Janet Raloff - Health & Medicine
Blending In: Dissolvable stents promise to protect arteries
A biodegradable magnesium stent props open clogged blood vessels and then dissolves, circumventing the problems linked to permanent metal stents.
By Nathan Seppa - Anthropology
Chicken of the Sea: Poultry may have reached Americas via Polynesia
Polynesians may have traveled back and forth to South America more than 600 years ago, introducing chickens to the Americas in the process.
By Bruce Bower - Health & Medicine
Guilt by Association: Whole-genome scans yield disease clues
In a sweeping demonstration of the power of the new biology, researchers have linked two dozen genetic variations to six major diseases.
By Brian Vastag - Health & Medicine
Animal-to-human diseases could be right at home
A new map of where SARS or Ebola might erupt next highlights North America and Western Europe as likely sources.
By Brian Vastag - Health & Medicine
Beware the bats
Fruit bats in Bangladesh regularly trigger small outbreaks of Nipah virus, a measleslike pathogen that causes brain inflammation and death.
By Brian Vastag - Health & Medicine
Phages break up plaques
Phages, viruses that infect bacteria, dissolve plaques in the brains of mice with an Alzheimer's-like disease.
By Brian Vastag - Health & Medicine
Sticky treatment for staph infections
Honey from New Zealand gums up bacteria, offering a potential new means of combating difficult-to-treat infections.
By Brian Vastag - Humans
Letters from the June 9, 2007, issue of Science News
Safe passage I have to ask you to remove the subtitle “Dangerous Bridge” under the photograph of the exit ramp from the New Jamarat Bridge in Saudi Arabia (“Formula for Panic: Crowd-motion findings may prevent stampedes,” SN: 4/7/07, p. 213). There has never been an accident on that ramp, and the bridge is now being […]
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