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3,586 results for: assessments
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Massacre at Sacred Ridge
A violent Pueblo incident sparks debate regarding prehistoric genocide.
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It’s enough to give you heartburn
Wonder drugs they may be, but PPIs are overprescribed and pose some health risks.
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2010 Science News of the Year: Earth
Credit: Alvaro Ybarra Zavala/Getty Images Inside the Haiti quake Some 230,000 Haitians died when a magnitude-7 earthquake struck just outside Port-au-Prince on the afternoon of January 12. Scientists from around the world scrambled to the scene (SN Online: 1/16/10) to assess which fault had ruptured and whether more people were at risk. Early ideas held […]
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2010 Science News of the Year: Science & Society
Credit: Ayimages/Istockphoto Vaccine link to autism dismissed In February, Lancet formally retracted a 1998 study that had kindled a storm of opposition to vaccines (SN Online: 2/3/10). The research suggested that autism arose in a handful of children after the kids received shots to prevent measles, mumps and rubella. The study’s lead author committed several […]
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Meet the Growbots
Social robots take baby steps toward humanlike smarts.
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Worming Your Way to Better Health
To battle autoimmune disease and allergy, scientists tune in to the tricks of parasites.
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Cerebral Delights
The amygdala, a part of the brain known for its role in fear, also helps people spot rewards — and go after them.
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Brain Boosters
Some nutritional supplements provide real food for thought.
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Better by Design
Avoiding undesirable traits from the start could help chemists make molecules less meddlesome.
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Cosmic questions, answers pending
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Atomic Anatomy
A century ago, Ernest Rutherford inaugurated the nuclear age.
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Going Under
While every anesthetic drug has its own effect, scientists know little about how the various versions work on the brain to transport patients from normal waking awareness to dreamless nothingness.
