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- Health & Medicine
Possible relief for irritable bowel
Those taking an antibiotic whose effects are localized to the intestines fared better than patients getting a placebo pill, two trials find.
- Chemistry
Building big molecules bottom-up
Using templates, chemists make ring structures on the scale of biological machinery.
- Paleontology
Oceans may have poisoned early animals
High sulfur and low oxygen produced a deadly brew nearly 500 million years ago that apparently stalled a burst of evolutionary change.
- Health & Medicine
Second chicken pox shot boosts coverage
Giving a follow-up vaccination increases coverage to more than 98 percent of kids who receive it, a study finds.
- Health & Medicine
How the brain shops
Using implanted electrodes, researchers find individual neurons associated with attaching value to objects.
- Humans
How to hear above the cocktail party din
Simply repeating a sound in different acoustic environments may allow listeners to focus in on it, experiments suggest.
- Life
Robins reject red glowing grub
Parasitic worms induce a color change in their caterpillar victims that's literally repulsive to predators.
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Young’uns adrift on the sea
Scientists try to identify and track elusive larvae in a boundless ocean.
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Physicists join immune fight
Principles beyond biology may help explain how the body battles infection.
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Liquid Acquisition
Two new scenarios ramp up debate over how Earth got its water.
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Science Past from issue of January 14, 1961
MAN-MADE DIAMONDS ONE-CARAT SIZE PRODUCED — Large, man-made diamonds, more than a carat in size, have been produced for the first time. The diamonds are dark in color and cannot now be used for industrial purposes because of structural imperfections. They were made at the General Electric Research Laboratory, Schenectady, N. Y., where the first […]
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Science Future for January 15, 2011
January 22 Tweens work with engineers in Boise, Idaho, to design cities. See www.futurecityidaho.org January 26 Science historian Steven Shapin discusses ancient and modern concepts of food science, in New York City. Go to www.nyas.org January 26 Raise a glass to the science of cocktails at San Francisco’s Exploratorium fundraiser. Go to www.exploratorium.edu
