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- Health & Medicine
Brain has two slots for working memory
The left and right hemispheres have equal and independent capacity, monkey study finds.
- Chemistry
Molecules/Matter & Energy
A first look at the roots of sight, plus fading blues, steady birds and more in this week’s news.
- Earth
Earth & Environment
Earth’s bulging waistline, plus ancient mangrove swamps and new threats from wildfires in this week’s news.
- Physics
Science of friction is a bit rough
In lab experiments, physicists trying to understand earthquakes are bumping up against the limitations of existing theory.
- Life
Genes & Cells
A look at how ovarian cancer spreads, plus clues to aging and immune links to cancer in this week’s news.
- Planetary Science
Messages from Mercury
The latest data from a NASA spacecraft give compositional clues and reveal craters that could hold frozen water
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From the Archive: Carp eat other fish out
History repeats with another round of carp invasion.
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Evolution’s Wedges
Finding the genes that drive one species into two.
- Earth
Death of a Continent, Birth of an Ocean
Africa’s Afar region gives glimpses of geology in action.
- Health & Medicine
Mind-Controlled
Linking brain and computer may soon lead to practical prosthetics for daily life.
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Science Past from the issue of July 1, 1961
WINTERGREEN VS. ALMOND IN ODOR PENETRATION TEST — Different chemicals produce different odors because vibrations within the molecules are different. This is the theory of Dr. R.H. Wright of the British Columbia Research Council in Vancouver, Canada. He compared nitrobenzene, which has an almond smell, and methyl salicylate, which smells like wintergreen. Both these substances […]
