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- Life
Three deep-sea fish families now one
Male and young whalefish look so different from females that scientists had mistakenly put them all in different families.
- Earth
Antarctica is getting warmer too
Satellite data show most of the continent is following worldwide trend.
- Health & Medicine
Easygoing, social people may get dementia less often
Don’t worry, be happy: People who are largely unstressed by mundane events seem less likely to develop dementia in old age than people who sweat the small stuff.
- Earth
Clearing some air over warming in Europe
A decline in fog and haze clears the air but also fuels 20 percent of the warming in Europe, a new study concludes.
- Earth
Top of Everest is an ozone overdose
Wafts from lower atmosphere, polluted regions bathe the peak in amounts that exceed EPA limits.
- Health & Medicine
Epigenetics reveals unexpected, and some identical, results
One study finds tissue-specific methylation signatures in the genome; another a similarity between identical twins in DNA’s chemical tagging.
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- Health & Medicine
Neural paths for borderline personality disorder
A new brain-imaging study indicates that unusual neural activity linked to emotion, attention and conflict-resolution systems underlies a common psychiatric condition known as borderline personality disorder.
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SN Special : Darwin turns 200
This special Web edition of Science News includes expanded versions of articles from the magazine’s print edition plus two additional features, all commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin.
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Book Review: Charles Darwin: The ‘Beagle’ Letters by Frederick Burkhardt (Editor)
Review by Tom Siegfried.
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Book Review: Freaks of Nature – What Anomalies Tell Us About Development and Evolution by Mark S. Blumberg
Review by Elizabeth Quill.
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Science Past for January 31, 1959
SEA VOICE MAY WARN REDS OF COMING STORMS — By listening to the sea’s voice, Russian scientists say they may be able to detect approaching storms. A Scientific Information Report circulated by the Central Intelligence Agency carries an abstract from an “unevaluated” paper prepared by Ya. Petrov, a Russian scientist. [He] says … V. V. […]
