Humans
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Health & Medicine
Probing a parasite for vulnerability
Researchers have discovered an enzyme that is indispensable to the parasite that causes sleeping sickness, and disabling that enzyme could offer a novel treatment strategy for the disease.
- Health & Medicine
Preventive drugs protect children
Preventive treatment with inexpensive drugs decreases rainy-season cases of malaria in Senegal.
- Health & Medicine
Saturated Fat Shows Unexpected Benefit
In a study of menopausal women, those who consumed higher amounts of saturated fats over 3 years had less plaque buildup in their arteries.
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From the November 24, 1934, issue
The 1934 Nobel Prize in chemistry is awarded, Jupiter's great red spot is explained, and a polar ice cap shivers in the wind.
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Imagination Factory
Looking for creative ways to recycle materials? This imaginative Web site for kids focuses on how to make art using materials that most people throw away. The activities include drawing, painting, sculpture, collage, and crafts. A “Trash Matcher” section links various types of solid waste with appropriate activities. Go to: http://www.kid-at-art.com/
- Health & Medicine
Umbilical Bounty: Cord blood shows value against leukemia
Umbilical cord blood transplants offer a viable treatment alternative for leukemia patients who don't have a matching bone marrow donor.
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- Health & Medicine
Drugs counteract irritable bowel syndrome
Antibiotics can knock out bacteria overload in the small intestine, temporarily reversing irritable bowel syndrome.
- Archaeology
Pompeii’s burial not its first disaster
Recent excavations reveal that the city of Pompeii, famed for its burial by an eruption of Italy's Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79, experienced several devastating landslides in the centuries preceding its demise.
- Health & Medicine
Asthma Counterattack
After several experimental attempts, researchers finally have verified that fighting allergens in the household can reduce symptoms of asthma.
- Health & Medicine
A Carrot Rainbow (with recipe)
There are more than aesthetic benefits from looking beyond orange when it comes to selecting carrots.
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Letters from the November 20, 2004, issue of Science News
When Earth got gas Considering the controversy that Thomas Gold engendered when he first postulated abiogenic origins of earthly hydrocarbons, it’s odd you didn’t mention his name, in “Deep Squeeze: Experiments point to methane in Earth’s mantle” (SN: 9/25/04, p. 198: Deep Squeeze: Experiments point to methane in Earth’s mantle). Edgar T. LynkNiskayuna, N.Y. Although […]
