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- Health & Medicine
Tricks Foods Play
Most people would never equate downing a well-dressed salad or a fried chicken thigh with toking a joint of marijuana. But to Joseph Hibbeln of the National Institutes of Health, the comparison isn’t a big stretch.
By Janet Raloff - Animals
Face Smarts
Macaques, sheep and even wasps may join people as masters at facial recognition.
By Susan Milius - Planetary Science
Planetary Peekaboo
Astronomers aren’t playing games when it comes to spotting an exoEarth.
By Nadia Drake - Tech
When Networks Network
Once studied solo, systems display surprising behavior when they interact.
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Making Data Work
Researchers pursue analogy between statistical evidence and thermodynamics.
- Earth
The facts behind the frack
The gas, primarily methane, is cheap and relatively clean. Because America is brimful of the stuff, harvesting the fuel via fracking could provide the country jobs and reduce its dependence on foreign sources of energy.
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Himalaya Rush
Scientists scurry to figure out the status of glaciers on the roof of the world
By Devin Powell -
- Health & Medicine
Cartilage Creation
New joint tissue could keep people moving, reducing need for knee or hip replacements.
By Nathan Seppa