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This article, in which among other things you gave a description of William’s syndrome, really surprised me. I said to myself, I know a boy like that. I finished the article and called the boy’s parents to see if they had ever heard about this genetic syndrome. They hadn’t. Numerous health-care providers had failed to […]
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Genes to Grow On
Researchers studying children with Williams syndrome say that the unusual condition emerges through a developmental process that's influenced but not predetermined by a genetic defect.
- Earth
Climate’s Long-Lost Twin
New geological evidence suggests that humans have started exploiting fossil fuels and altering Earth's atmosphere at precisely the moment when greenhouse gases could do the most damage to climate.
- Health & Medicine
Hear, Hear
A 14-year study of twin babies shows definitively for the first time that there's a link between middle ear infections and heredity.
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19107
Your article seems to imply that there is something worse about spending 10 hours a week surfing the Web than other pastimes. Why isn’t 10 hours a week spent reading books, watching television, doing crossword puzzles, listening to music, or other solitary hobbies just as “socially isolating”? The sports fan who watches 10 hours of […]
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Survey raises issue of isolated Web users
A controversial study suggests that heavy users of the Internet become socially isolated.
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19106
If large black holes are at the heart of most galaxies and they are dark by definition and we have no way to tell what their size is, couldn’t they be hiding enough mass to make up the missing mass in the universe? Georges KaufmanTampa, Fla. A central black hole would not cause the visible […]
- Astronomy
Votes cast for and against the WIMP factor
Physicists this week duked it out over a bunch of WIMPs, elementary particles that—if they exist—could solve a decades-old mystery in cosmology and help unify the four fundamental forces of nature.
- Chemistry
Power plants: Algae churn out hydrogen
Green algae can produce hydrogen, a clean-burning fuel that could one day power pollution-free cars.
- Physics
Manhandled molecules, midget memories
A thick coating of organic chemicals can record information at densities potentially a million times greater than is possible with current compact disk technology.
- Archaeology
Vase shows that ancients dug fossils, too
A painting on an ancient Corinthian vase may be the first record of a fossil find.
- Animals
New frog-killing disease may not be so new
The skin disease that savaged amphibians in remote wildernesses in the 1990s has been linked to outbreaks in the 1970s.
