Humans
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Health & Medicine
Pain follows cycle
Estrogen fluctuations during a woman's menstrual cycle may change her perception of pain.
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Ballot Roulette
In the midst of rapid change in voting technology, researchers are finding causes for concern as well as inventing new equipment and schemes to improve the accuracy and integrity of elections.
- Health & Medicine
The Cancer of Dorian Gray
By studying mice that have been engineered to carry mutations in certain tumor-suppressing genes, researchers have identified a link between cancer and aging.
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Letters from the November 4, 2006, issue of Science News
Twisted logic? I have a question concerning “The Sun’s Halo in 3-D” (SN: 8/19/06, p. 120). It says, “As the sun rotates, its polar regions make a complete circle in about 34 days, compared with the 25 days required by its equator.” I was wondering how it’s possible to have two points on a rotating […]
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From the October 24, 1936, issue
A sugarcane jungle, stopping cancer growth with diet, and an insect-killing fungus.
- Health & Medicine
Vanishing Devices: Doctors implant disappearing stents, heart patches
Novel heart devices fashioned mainly from materials that the body can absorb or break down have made their debut in heart patients.
- Health & Medicine
Lung Scan: CT may catch some treatable cancers
Computed tomography (CT) scans seem to catch lung cancer early in smokers, but questions remain about the screening procedure.
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Protecting against a difficult microbe
By using DNA from the bacterium Clostridium difficile, scientists have fashioned a vaccine against the microbe.
- Health & Medicine
Flu vaccine seems to work for kids under 6 months of age
Babies younger than 6 months appear fully capable of responding to a flu shot.
- Health & Medicine
Dengue strikes United States
Texas has been hit with the first-ever outbreak of dengue hemorrhagic fever in the continental United States.
- Health & Medicine
Cola May Weaken Women’s Bones
New research indicates that, in postmenopausal women, regular consumption of cola-flavored soft drinks may weaken bones.
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Letters from the October 28, 2006, issue of Science News
Slow down a minute “Braking news: Disks slow down stars” (SN: 8/12/06, p. 109) says that a magnetic linkage between spinning stars and the charged particles in the dusty disks that surround them slowed the spin of the stars, but says nothing about its effect on the disk. The law of conservation of angular momentum […]
