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- Health & Medicine
Hard mattresses not best for back pain
People sleeping on medium-firm mattresses report less pain than those sleeping on firm mattresses, contradicting a long-held belief that harder is better.
- Health & Medicine
Hard mattresses not best for back pain
People sleeping on medium-firm mattresses report less pain than those sleeping on firm mattresses, contradicting a long-held belief that harder is better.
- Anthropology
Baboons demonstrate social proficiency
Wild baboons exhibit a richer, more complex social life than scientists have often assumed, according to two new studies.
- Anthropology
Baboons demonstrate social proficiency
Wild baboons exhibit a richer, more complex social life than scientists have often assumed, according to two new studies.
- Humans
Science News of the Year 2003
A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the year 2003.
- Science & Society
Science News of the Year 2003
A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the year 2003.
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Warning issued for trauma debriefing
Efforts to get survivors of a variety of life-threatening situations to vent their emotions in debriefing sessions may do no good, or even cause harm in some cases, a research review finds.
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Warning issued for trauma debriefing
Efforts to get survivors of a variety of life-threatening situations to vent their emotions in debriefing sessions may do no good, or even cause harm in some cases, a research review finds.
- Planetary Science
Did rivers once run on the Red Planet?
A fan-shaped region of debris on Mars is providing new evidence that some places on the Red Planet, now bone-dry, once had long-lasting rivers or lakes.
- Planetary Science
Did rivers once run on the Red Planet?
A fan-shaped region of debris on Mars is providing new evidence that some places on the Red Planet, now bone-dry, once had long-lasting rivers or lakes.
- Tech
Glow with the flow
Potentially usable electricity flows when water is forced through millions of ceramic tubes thinner than a human hair.
- Tech
Glow with the flow
Potentially usable electricity flows when water is forced through millions of ceramic tubes thinner than a human hair.
