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  1. Health & Medicine

    Racial homogeneity in early childhood may affect brain

    In lab study, kids who lived in single-race orphanages have difficulty interpreting emotions on faces with foreign features.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Mediterranean diet may offset genetic risk for stroke

    Compared to a low-fat diet, eating fish and olive oil kept blood sugar levels lower in people with a common diabetes risk factor.

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  3. Psychology

    Ratio for a good life exposed as ‘nonsense’

    A heralded calculation of people’s ability to flourish is a mathematical mirage, researchers say.

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  4. Humans

    DNA reveals details of the peopling of the Americas

    Migrants came in three distinct waves that interbred once in the New World.

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  5. Life

    Envisioning a fly brain

    A new map of the fruit fly brain shows how the insect detects motion.

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  6. Letters to the editor

    Bohr no boor As described in “When the atom went quantum,” (SN: 7/13/13, p. 20), Bohr’s willingness to travel both paths when different viewpoints seemed to clash, yet both seemed to fit the data, was crucial to the development of quantum mechanics. Yet that willingness cannot be equated with acceptance of all possible views. Having […]

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  7. Physics

    Key to Other Worlds

    Excerpt from the August 17, 1963, issue of Science News Letter.

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  8. Climate

    The Attacking Ocean

    The Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels by Brian Fagan.

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  9. Neuroscience

    The Autistic Brain

    Thinking Across the Spectrum by Temple Grandin and Richard Panek.

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  10. Science & Society

    Impactful Distraction

    Talking while driving poses dangers that people seem unable to see.

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  11. Tech

    On the Rebound

    Scientists revive search for new rubber sources.

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  12. Genetics

    A glowing green thumb

    Omri Amirav-Drory wants to engineer a glow-in-the-dark garden.

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