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http://www.sciencenews.org/view/issue/id/9545
April 5th, 2008
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Boys with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder who take prescribed stimulant medication don't become more likely to abuse drugs than boys who don't receive the medication. (p. 211)
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Astronomers, for the first time, have imaged dusty clumps surrounding young stars that could be planets in the making. (p. 211)
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Silver Y moths choose to fly when wind blows in the same direction that they migrate, and they may even compensate when the wind pushes them off-course. (p. 212)
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Two days of starvation kicks mice's cells into repair mode and helps them endure high doses of chemotherapy. (p. 212)
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Researchers have recovered microscopic bits of cellulose from 253-million-year-old salt deposits deep underground. (p. 213)
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New evidence suggests that Botox migrates from the injection site, perhaps traveling along nerve cells. (p. 213)
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A fatty compound called ceramide that accumulates in lung cells may be instrumental in the devastating disease cystic fibrosis. (p. 214)
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A team of biologists places comb jellies, not sponges, at the base of a new tree of animal life. (p. 214)
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Diamond can hold quantum information even at room temperature, which makes it a candidate material for future quantum computers. (p. 216)
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Human cells grown in conditions that mimic life inside the body are beginning to replace lab animals for testing drug candidates and industrial chemicals. (p. 218)
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Relatively high concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide weaken soybean defenses against Japanese beetles. (p. 221)
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The kinds of microbes living in an infant's gut may influence weight gain later in childhood. (p. 221)
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The experimental drug tocilizumab quells rheumatoid arthritis in adults and children by inhibiting an inflammatory compound called interleukin-6. (p. 221)
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The Tibetan Plateau formed when the Indian and Eurasian plates collided, but scientists may have had the order of events wrong. (p. 222)
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Water softens squid beaks toward their base, so they don't cut into the squid's own soft tissue. (p. 222)
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Individual-specific DNA deletions and duplications, many located in genes involved in brain development, occur in an unusually large percentage of people with schizophrenia. (p. 222)
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