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- Health & Medicine
Tracing pollution links to asthma, allergy
Excessive exposure to air high in diesel exhaust and wood smoke is tied to disabled immune-regulating cells in children.
- Earth
Moderate climate warming could melt permafrost
Ancient cave formations in Siberia reveal effects of warmer past on frozen ground.
- Life
Insulin levels wax and wane daily
Modern life may clash with the hormone’s natural cycle, new mouse research suggests.
- Space
New home for runaway black hole
Galactic merger and ejection may have sent a cosmic wanderer through deep space.
- Earth
Intensive care linked to BPA exposure in newborns
High levels of pollutant BPA occur in sickest babies, study finds.
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New age for ancient man
Science Past from the issue of March 9, 1963.
- Health & Medicine
Novel drug candidates fight flu in mice
The compounds halt even drug-resistant strains of the virus in lab studies
- Life
Bees learn the electric buzz of flowers
Floral electric fields could join color and fragrance as cues to pollinators.
- Life
Chill turns monarchs north
Temperature manipulation appears to solve mystery of what triggers migratory butterflies’ homeward trip.
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SN Online
CULTURE BEAKER Read Rachel Ehrenberg’s column “In Hollywood, buzz beats star power when it comes to predicting box office take.” Y. Ivanenko et al/J. of Neuroscience 2013 MIND & BRAIN See a video showing a test of a baby’s motor control (right) in “Newborn babies walk the walk.” EARTH See video of the meteor that […]
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Upcoming events
Science Future for March 9, 2013.
- Humans
Exploring NASA’s quirky places
Best known for its role in crafting and commanding spacecraft such as Curiosity, JPL is also home to decades’ worth of accumulated oddities.
