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  1. Physics

    Dropping the Ball: Air pressure helps objects sink into sand

    A ball plunges deeper into sand under atmospheric pressure than under a vacuum, because the presence of air allows sand to flow like a liquid.

    By Davide Castelvecchi
  2. Materials Science

    Allergy Nanomedicine: Buckyballs dampen response of cells that trigger allergic reactions

    Drugs based on soccer ball–shaped carbon molecules could one day help fight allergies.

    By Alexandra Goho

  3. Hidden Smarts: Abstract thought trumps IQ scores in autism

    Autistic children and adults do better on a nonverbal test of abstract reasoning than they do on standard IQ tests, suggesting that their intelligence has been underestimated.

    By Bruce Bower

  4. 19854

    The article didn’t mention that traditional IQ tests are in one sense “language” tests.