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- Health & Medicine
Big Increase Coming for NIH — Maybe
The Obama administration hopes to do what lawmakers couldn't last year — give an extra $1 billion to NIH.
- Health & Medicine
For preemies, less is more
Multiple courses of steroid treatment for mom could harm premature babies.
- Health & Medicine
EPA should test demasculinizing pollutants collectively, NRC says
Cumulative effects of phthalates and related compounds likely larger than effects measured one chemical at a time, reports a National Research Council panel.
- Climate
Holdren to Head White House Science
It appears that another physicist with Nobel ties is set to become the primary Obama adviser on science.
- Life
Dinosaur day care dads
A new study shows some male dinosaurs may have been the primary caretakers of their young.
- Humans
Primates get a neural facial
New brain-imaging studies indicate that similar brain areas coordinate face recognition in people, chimpanzees and macaque monkeys, suggesting that a face-sensitive brain system evolved early in primate evolution.
- Health & Medicine
Bacteria help themselves in damaged lungs
An antibiotic produced by a bacterium acts as a molecular snorkel to help with breathing. The bacterium infects and kills many people with cystic fibrosis, and plugging the snorkel could lead to treatments.
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- Health & Medicine
Enzyme inventory affects ovarian cancer outlook
Levels of two enzymes crucial for shutting down genes might clarify the prognosis for ovarian cancer patients, a new study finds.
- Tech
Hot new memory
A study of the physics of phonons, quantum packets of heat, suggests that controlling the flow of heat could be another way to store digital information.
- Earth
Surprise find taps into magma
In a scientific first, engineers drill into a subterranean pocket of molten rock.
- Life
Aging gets with the program
A study on yeast organisms reveals checkpoints in the aging process: the buildup of certain lipids and fatty acids, and the health of the cell's powerhouses. Drugs could target these checkpoints.
