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- Animals
Antarctic waters may shelter wrecks from shipworms
Ocean currents and polar front form 'moat' that keeps destructive mollusks at bay.
- Quantum Physics
Quantum teleportation approaches the computer chip
Researchers speedily transmit information from one tiny circuit to another on solid-state device.
- Psychology
Mental disorder seen as ‘badness, not sickness’
Health workers tend to consider borderline personality disorder a tag for patients who are difficult or impossible to treat.
- Health & Medicine
Racial homogeneity in early childhood may affect brain
In lab study, kids who lived in single-race orphanages have difficulty interpreting emotions on faces with foreign features.
- Psychology
Ratio for a good life exposed as ‘nonsense’
A heralded calculation of people’s ability to flourish is a mathematical mirage, researchers say.
- Humans
DNA reveals details of the peopling of the Americas
Migrants came in three distinct waves that interbred once in the New World.
- Earth
Emissions could fuel global warming for millennia
Climate simulation projects effects of greenhouse gases farther into the future than ever before.
- Tech
Hybrid race car of transistors debuts
A new transistor combines the essential features of high speed and low energy consumption.
- Health & Medicine
Vaccine protects against malaria in early test
A series of shots enables volunteers to fend off a live infection by the disease-causing parasite.
- Neuroscience
Caffeine shakes up growing mouse brains
When pregnant mice consumed caffeine, their offspring had altered neurons and faulty memory.
- Science & Society
HeLa genome offers clues to cells’ cancerous nature
The genetic sequence is published along with an agreement to protect the privacy of the family of the cells’ provider, Henrietta Lacks.
- Science & Society
Flu researchers plan to repeat controversial work
The scientists who made the H5N1 strain transmissible between ferrets intend to do the same with H7N9.
