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The Digital Camera Revolution
Instead of imitating film counterparts, new technologies work with light in creative ways.
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Head Agony
Jumpy cells may underlie migraine’s sensory storm.
- Climate
Soil’s Hidden Secrets
Shocking discoveries from the underground may shake up climate science.
- Psychology
Big score for the hot hand
Hot hands exist in professional volleyball and influence game strategy.
- Earth
Small efforts to reduce methane, soot could have big effect
Simple measures could slow global warming and reduce premature deaths.
- Tech
Twitter kept up with Haiti cholera outbreak
Epidemiologists find that social media can be used to track disease outbreaks as they happen, even in countries with little infrastructure.
- Health & Medicine
Study tracks booze’s buzz in the brain
In both heavy and light drinkers, alcohol causes the release of morphinelike chemicals.
- Space
Planets as common as stars in Milky Way
A new analysis suggests the galaxy is riddled with worlds.
- Health & Medicine
Light pot smoking easy on lungs
Infrequent marijuana users show a slight improvement in breathing capacity and middling smokers had no change, a 20-year study shows.
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- Life
Crabs hither, shrimp thither
Biologists document surprising differences among deep-sea animals at hydrothermal vent fields.
