All Stories
- Health & Medicine
How being deaf can enhance sight
Hearing-specialized brain regions can adapt to processing visual input, cat experiments show.
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The Science of Slumber
Special issue on sleep.
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The Why of Sleep
Brain studies may reveal the purpose of a behavior both basic and mystifying.
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Sleep Gone Awry
Researchers inch closer to causes, cures for insomnia, narcolepsy.
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Dying to Sleep
Getting too little sleep can impair body and brain and could even be deadly.
- Science & Society
2010 Nobels recognize potential of basic science to shape the world
Prizes go to IVF, graphene and ‘carbon chemistry at its best’
- Life
One small step for a snail, one giant leap for snailkind
Experiments suggest that gastropods shed their shells in one fell swoop during the evolutionary transition that created slugs.
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Cosmic dioramas
Metamaterials may offer windows into other worlds.
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- Space
Life may have started sky high
Simulations of the atmosphere on Saturn’s moon Titan suggest that basic chemical ingredients could have formed far above early Earth.
- Life
The unusual suspects
With no obvious culprit in sight, geneticists do broader sweeps to identify autism’s causes.
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Science Future for October 23, 2010
October 28 – 30 National Science Teachers Association holds its Kansas City area conference on science education. Go to www.nsta.org/conferences/2010kan November 1 Slated launch date for shuttle Discovery’s final spaceflight. See www.nasa.gov/missions November 5Nomination deadline for the 15th Annual Carnegie Science Awards. Go to www.carnegiesciencecenter.org
