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- Astronomy
Sun’s shock wave goes missing
Spacecraft observations redraw astronomers’ ideas about the local stellar environment.
- Life
Culture results when chimps get cracking
Adjacent groups in Africa follow different traditions when it comes to opening nuts.
- Earth
Big Antarctic ice sheet appears doomed
Warming climate is expected to trigger the sudden retreat of a partially floating glacier on the continent’s western side by 2100.
- Health & Medicine
Procedure offers hope in type 1 diabetes
A new approach restored adequate, lasting insulin production in seven of 12 mice tested.
- Health & Medicine
Rare neurons found in monkeys’ brains
Cells linked to empathy and consciousness in primates may offer clues to human self-awareness.
- Space
More than one way to explode a star
New observations confirm two leading theories of type 1a supernova production.
- Humans
Rural life may boost allergy resistance
Country kids had a greater diversity of bacteria associated with increased levels of the anti-inflammatory molecule IL-10.
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- Physics
Physicists go totally random
Calculations suggest a way to boost the independence of information flow, a finding that could help in cryptography.
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The Science Life
Taking the world for a spin.
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Letters
Visions spark debate In “Visions for all” (SN: 4/7/12, p. 22), researchers found that functioning people who “hallucinated” God were high on the “absorption” scale and that 4 percent of people studied reported hallucinations. This reminded me that 4 percent of the population is grade V hypnotizable. All of these superhypnotizable people rate very high […]
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SN Online
LIFE A study documents homicide among chimps. Read “Chimps show lethal side.” NASA, JPL-Caltech, UA ATOM & COSMOS Cameras spy a Martian dust devil in “Tall, devilish storm skids across Mars’ surface.” DELETED SCENES BLOG For two astrophysics studies, negative results were meaningful. See “A result of zero doesn’t always mean zero results.” A dairy […]
