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- Health & Medicine
Testing nanoparticles
Testing the toxicity of dozens of nanoparticles en masse may offer a faster track to medical applications.
- Health & Medicine
Pollution and blood clots
Inhaling tiny pollution particles, even at concentrations allowed in urban air, appears to increase the risk that an individual’s veins will develop potentially lethal blood clots.
- Life
It’s the network, stupid
The complexity of humans may lie not in genes but in the web of interactions among the proteins they make.
- Earth
Emissions head north
When it comes to Arctic air, various regions of the Northern Hemisphere are equal opportunity polluters. Even some subtropical countries in southern Asia get into the act.
- Physics
John Wheeler (1911-2008)
SN Editor in Chief Tom Siegfried remembers the late physicist John Wheeler, who coined the term "black hole" in 1967, with excerpts from conversations the two had engaged in over the past two decades.
- Humans
Future scientists
More than 1,500 high school students will gather in Atlanta to flex their mental muscles at the 2008 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.
- Humans
Science in the City
The inaugural World Science Festival kicks off in New York May 28 and features a variety of events celebrating the role of science in all aspects of modern life, culture and the arts.
- Computing
Scientists Get a 2nd Life
The virtual world of Second Life offers new ways to do and learn about real science.
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- Life
Epic Genetics
The way genes are packaged by "epigenetic" changes may play a major role in the risk of addiction, depression and other mental disorders.
- Math
Sensitivity to the harmony of things
The work of Alexandre Grothendieck has transformed math the way the Internet has transformed communication: Once you’re used to it, you can’t imagine what life was like before it.
- Humans
The undeciders
A country’s development seems tied to the size of its executive cabinet, and a mathematical model helps explain why.
