Humans

  1. Humans

    Nobel Celebrations

    A firsthand account unveils the pageantry that surrounds the awarding of the Nobel prizes in Stockholm.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    The Beef about UTIs

    Antibiotic-resistant infections that affect some women may have been contracted from infected meat.

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  3. Humans

    From the January 12, 1935, issue

    A Mayan figurine, star composition, and gene locations.

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  4. Humans

    Puzzle of the Week

    Eager to exercise your mind and join in a friendly puzzle-solving competition? Try the weekly challenge at the new PuzzleUp Web site, created by Emrehan Halici, a software and game developer in Turkey. Go to: http://www.puzzleup.com/

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Phage Attack: Antibacterial virus might suppress cholera

    Bacteria-attacking viruses that infect bacteria hold cholera bacteria in check throughout most of the year except during the rainy season when these viruses become diluted.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Not to Your Health: New mechanism proposed for alcohol-related tumors

    New findings suggest that alcohol encourages blood vessels to invade tumors, supplying nutrients that promote tumor growth.

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    Letters from the January 15, 2005, issue of Science News

    Maybe a smoky card game I’m a veterinarian, and, here in west Texas, we see a high occurrence of parvovirus infection in young dogs. It destroys the intestinal villi, allowing gastrointestinal bacteria and their toxins to enter the bloodstream (“Nicotine’s Good Side: Substance curbs sepsis in mice,” SN: 11/6/04, p. 291). I would be very […]

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Antibiotics could save nerves

    Penicillin and its family of related antibiotics may prevent the type of nerve damage that occurs in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other diseases.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Palm-Nut Problem

    The ancient custom of chewing areca nuts is getting more popular as young Asians take up the habit, but betel-nut chewing has been linked to several types of oral cancer.

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  10. Humans

    Letters from the January 8, 2005, issue of Science News

    Below the surface I would suggest that the Italian hydrologists cited in “Fighting Water with Water: To lift the city, pump the sea beneath Venice” (SN: 10/30/04, p. 277: Fighting Water with Water: To lift the city, pump the sea beneath Venice) consider the law of unintended consequences. Similar actions begun in 1978 at an […]

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  11. Humans

    From the January 5, 1935, issue

    Karl T. Compton, Einstein explains relativity theory, and controlling cancer cells.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Bad Combo? Some antidepressants may hamper breast cancer drug

    Certain widely used antidepressants and a woman's own genes might diminish the effect of tamoxifen, a frontline breast cancer drug.

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