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- 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.
- 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.
- Psychology
Ratio for a good life exposed as ‘nonsense’
A heralded calculation of people’s ability to flourish is a mathematical mirage, researchers say.
By Bruce Bower - 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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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 […]
By Science News - Physics
Key to Other Worlds
Excerpt from the August 17, 1963, issue of Science News Letter.
By Science News - Climate
The Attacking Ocean
The Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels by Brian Fagan.
By Erin Wayman - Neuroscience
The Autistic Brain
Thinking Across the Spectrum by Temple Grandin and Richard Panek.
By Meghan Rosen - Science & Society
Impactful Distraction
Talking while driving poses dangers that people seem unable to see.
By Nathan Seppa -
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