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  1. Brain-based help for adults with dyslexia

    Intensive phonics instruction for adults with dyslexia yields brain changes that underlie their improved reading ability.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Malaria vaccine shows promise in Mozambique

    An experimental malaria vaccine tested on children in Mozambique provides some protection against the potentially life-threatening disease.

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  3. Paleontology

    Irish elk survived after ice age ended

    New fossil finds indicate that the so-called Irish elk, previously thought to have died out at the end of the last ice age, survived in some spots for several millennia more.

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  4. Materials Science

    Metal Makeover

    Metallic glasses with extraordinary strength and corrosion resistance have been known for decades, but only recently have researchers been able to make such alloys on a large scale from inexpensive iron.

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  5. Animals

    Hide and See

    A new look at fish on coral reefs considers the possibility that all that riotous color has its inconspicuous side.

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  6. Humans

    Letters from the October 30, 2004, issue of Science News

    It isn’t academic Speaking as someone with a Ph.D. in math who has spent most of his 30-year professional life unemployed and who can probably look forward to spending the rest of it unemployable, I was disappointed that “Where Ph.D.s pay off” in (SN: 8/7/04, p. 94: Where Ph.D.s pay off) made no apparent effort […]

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  7. Humans

    From the October 27, 1934, issue

    A large telescope lens made in Russia, artificial gamma rays from sodium, and acetylcholine revealed as message carrier for nerve cells.

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  8. Sequenced Genomes

    These listings are about as close as modern genomics gets to Pokemon cards. Here are illustrations and quick descriptions of organisms whose genomes have been sequenced. Some are familiar, such as Homo sapiens, but in most cases, it’s a great way to meet some amazing biological oddities. Go to: http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/resources/sequenced_genomes/genome_guide_p1.shtml

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Prescription for Trouble: Antidepressants might rewire young brains

    Young mice exposed to a common type of antidepressant, known as a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), showed symptoms of anxiety and depression in adulthood.

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  10. 19476

    I would suggest that the Italian hydrologists cited in your article consider the law of unintended consequences. Similar actions begun in 1978 at an oil field in Wyoming drove methane to the surface and resulted in a large kill zone of the dominant sagebrush Artemisia tridentata. James A. ErdmanCrestone, Colo. The researchers in Italy say […]

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  11. Earth

    Fighting Water with Water: To lift the city, pump the sea beneath Venice

    With technology commonly used in oil fields, engineers could inject large volumes of seawater into sandy strata deep beneath Venice, Italy, to reverse the ground subsidence that plagues the city.

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  12. Chemistry

    Fatty acid makes busy micropotter

    A fatty acid commonly found in soap and vegetable oil assembles into microscopic, potterylike structures when it crystallizes.

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