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- Health & Medicine
Experimental drug fends off emphysema in mice
Mice exposed to cigarette smoke and then ed the drug and fended of emphysema, suggesting the edible drug might help ex-smokers.
- Life
Buzzing bees protect plant leaves
Honeybee air traffic can interrupt caterpillars' relentless munching.
- Earth
Warmer oceans would fuel more thunderstorms
Satellite data reveal more thunderheads forming as tropical sea-surface temperatures rise.
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Book Review: The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces by Frank Wilczek
Book Review: The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces by Frank Wilczek
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Book Review: Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War by Jeffrey A. Lockwood
Book Review: Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War by Jeffrey A. Lockwood
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Cranes: A Natural History of a Bird in Crisis by Janice M. Hughes
Cranes: A Natural History of a Bird in Crisis by Janice M. Hughes
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Dyslexia, Learning, and the Brain by Roderick I. Nicolson and Angela J. Fawcett
Dyslexia, Learning, and the Brain by Roderick I. Nicolson and Angela J. Fawcett
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Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America by Stephen Trimble
Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America by Stephen Trimble
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The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine by Charles Petzold
The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine by Charles Petzold
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Nobel: A Century of Prize Winners by Michael Worek, ed.
Nobel: A Century of Prize Winners by Michael Worek, ed.
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Letters
A better way The article “Thinning fuel before injection boosts efficiency” (SN: 10/25/08, p. 9) shows that there are many ways to find efficiency when we look. One place I see for improvement is moisture injection in the feed airstream to gasoline engines. Here in the Southwest, where humidity runs at 20 percent, rainy days […]
