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- Psychology
Teen daters pal up to the bottle
Buddies of boyfriends and girlfriends push teens toward or away from booze.
- Physics
Sweet beams: Lasers to measure blood sugar
Cutting-edge use of light might someday prove useful in gauging diabetics’ glucose levels.
- Space
Messenger from Mercury
NASA orbiter returns images of odd landforms on the solar system's innermost planet.
- Health & Medicine
The mind’s eye revealed
A new technology uses brain scans to see what a person is watching.
- Life
Food makes male flies frisky
Courtship behavior in a classic lab insect is driven by the aroma of dinner.
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Trilayer graphene exhibits quantum effect
Three could be the magic number for making spintronic devices from thin carbon sheets.
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- Chemistry
Miracle fruit secret revealed
Bizarre berry works by sensitizing the tongue's sweet sensors to acidic flavors.
- Space
Atom & Cosmos
Alien extreme weather, nature vs. nurture in stars and more in this week’s news.
- Health & Medicine
B12 shortage linked to cognitive problems
Subtle B12 deficiency plagues a surprising share of the elderly and may harm the brain, studies suggest.
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For what you want to know, Bayes offers superior stats
It turns out that the old adage about statistics and damned lies wasn’t a joke. Sticks and stones may be bonebreakers, and words inflict no (physical) pain, but numbers can kill. In 2004, for instance, a statistical analysis suggested that antidepressant drugs raised the risk of suicide in youngsters and adolescents, leading the U.S. Food […]
