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- 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. […]
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Letters
Right-left preference In the article “Body in mind” (SN: 10/25/08, p. 24), Dr. Casasanto speaks of results with people who are left-handed or right-handed. But no mention is made of people who are innately ambidextrous, as in my family. Has he worked with any of these people? What about people who are almost ambidextrous but […]
- Life
Step-by-step Evolution
Hard to find, but very fruitful when found, transitional fossils fill in the gaps in the paleontological record.
- Life
A Most Private Evolution
The most dramatic examples of the power of evolutionary theory may come from the strange and ugly stuff — biology too dumb to have been designed.
