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- Health & Medicine
Dream contents deciphered by computer
Similar brain patterns emerge when seeing an object and conjuring it during sleep.
- Psychology
Light found in cocaine addiction tunnel
Using lasers, scientists target a sluggish set of neurons in rats to ease drug compulsion.
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SN Online
BECOMING HUMANLearn how people have been driving species to extinction since the Stone Age in a new column by Erin Wayman. Rufus Isaacs LIFE Wild insects are a key to bigger harvests. See “Native pollinators boost crop yields worldwide.” SCIENCE & SOCIETYBy tracking tweets, researchers identify communities. Read “Twitter maps New York City, language by […]
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Upcoming events
Science Future for April 20, 2013.
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Transplant from the dead
Science Past from the issue of April 20, 1963.
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Letters to the Editor
Pacing Alzheimer’s Science Stats “Alzheimer’s Advancing” (SN: 3/9/13, p. 4) reports a new analysis extrapolating from 2010 U.S. Census data that concludes Alzheimer’s disease will triple by 2050. Omitted in such an analysis is the accelerating advance of science and medicine over the next 40 years. The gloomy prediction makes little sense unless science stops […]
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BOOK REVIEW: Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Review by Bruce Bower.
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Wolves in the Land of Salmon by David Moskowitz
An expert wildlife tracker paints a portrait of wolves’ lives and value to ecosystems, set against the backdrop of conflict over rising wolf populations. Timber Press, 2013, 334 p., $29.95
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Love in the Time of Algorithms: What Technology Does to Meeting and Mating by Dan Slater
A journalist argues that the calculations powering online dating websites are shaping the love lives of the 80 million American singles who use the services. Current, 2013, 245 p., $25.95
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Blackett’s War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare by Stephen Budiansky
A small group of scientists helped win World War II and changed the way wars are fought, a military historian postulates. Knopf, 2013, 336 p., $27.95
