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- Major twister hits Oklahoma: Its speed, which largely determines the damage it causes, is still unknown
- Why a tornado forms: Tornadoes start with a thunderstorm. But they also require other ingredients, such as instability.
- A mind for math: A part of the brain associated with making memories may also predict success in learning math
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- Dow drops follow weeks when more people search Google for ‘debt’ or ‘stocks.’
- Larger settings seem to promote segregation, simulation finds.
- The administration’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2014 lifts nondefense research spending by 9 percent.
- Initiative would develop tools to measure coordinated neuron activity.
- Epigenetic changes reach down through the generations.
- Apart from Spanish tweets that blanket the area, non-English tweets cluster in neighborhoods.
- A new program mines mobile provider records for suspicious patterns.
- The 2013 Intel Science Talent Search awards teens for research.
- With data from thousands of volunteers, researchers connect social media activity to personal traits.
- The lab mouse is being remodeled to better mimic how humans respond to disease.
- Raman spectroscopy allows forensics researchers to distinguish among dozens of lipsticks.
- A study that compares trauma responses of mice with those in people questions the relevance of mouse research to human disease.
- A comparison of internal and public reports about Pfizer’s drug Neurontin reveals many discrepancies.
- Too much time spent indoors may be behind a surge in nearsightedness.
- Forty vie for top awards in 2013 Intel Science Talent Search.
- Scientists lift self-imposed moratorium on research that would make avian flu transmissible among humans.
- The molecule swaps its biological role for a computational one, that of long-term data storage.
- Cooler periods coincided with conflicts and disease outbreaks, a tree-ring study spanning the last millennium finds.
- Researchers at the meeting, held December 5-7 in Santa Fe, N.M., offer insight into spam blocking and sick leave.
- A nonlinear analysis explains how negotiations often turn on seemingly insignificant details.
- Resizing geographic areas by population gives more accurate view of 2012 election.
- Too much information prompted bad currency projections by international money firms, a psychologist contends, and may have blinded them to the global financial crisis.
- Worries over political misinformation on Twitter attract scientists’ attention.
- First place at Broadcom MASTERS goes to 14-year-old who studied automotive aerodynamics.
- Two-thirds of scientific papers pulled from journals are for fraud, suspected fraud and plagiarism.
- Federal housing subsidies didn’t fight poverty as hoped, but trading public housing for new neighborhoods brought psychological benefits.
- People were more likely to take part in the November 2010 election when they were told that their online friends already had.
- With the naming of the 30 finalists, middle school students will vie for top prize in national Broadcom MASTERS competition.
- Apollo 11 commander held true to his engineering roots.
- Nanoparticles in exhaust and common consumer products can end up in soil and harm the growth and health of crops.
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