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  1. Neuroscience

    Dyslexic brain may solve some math problems in a roundabout way

    Children with dyslexia rely heavily on right brain to do addition problems.

    By Laura Sanders
  2. Health & Medicine

    Not all the ‘baby friendly’ rules are rooted in science

    The Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative has a noble goal of encouraging breastfeeding, but some of its recommendations may be based on shaky science.

    By Laura Sanders
  3. Health & Medicine

    Mass EKG screening for athletes inadvisable, panel says

    Only athletes with warning signs of cardiac problems should be tested with electrocardiograms, according to the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology.

    By Laura Beil
  4. Health & Medicine

    Test Ebola treatments to be rushed to West Africa

    The World Health Organization has announced that it will use test treatments in West Africa starting this fall.

    By Science News Staff
  5. Health & Medicine

    Human tests of experimental Ebola vaccine set to start

    NIH and NIAID have announced that human tests of an experimental vaccine against Ebola virus will begin in early September.

    By Nathan Seppa
  6. Health & Medicine

    To grow new knee cartilage, look to the nose

    Cartilage-making cells from the nose grew into patches that successfully replaced damaged or missing cartilage in the knees of goats and of humans.

    By Nathan Seppa
  7. Health & Medicine

    Evidence-based medicine actually isn’t

    Demands for evidence-based medicine confront the contradiction that much of the evidence is worthless or skewed.

    By Tom Siegfried
  8. Health & Medicine

    Resistance to key malaria drug spreads

    Parasites that are less susceptible to artemisinin now affect several Asian countries.

    By Nathan Seppa
  9. Science & Society

    Main result of Facebook emotion study: less trust in Facebook

    Facebook’s controversial manipulation of emotional posts raises key questions about how to study online behavior.

    By Bruce Bower
  10. Neuroscience

    In female flies, sex is more complex than yes or no

    A female fruit fly’s role in mating has appeared to be a simple yes or no. But now three new papers show the behavior is far more subtle, and intricate, than first thought.

    By Bethany Brookshire
  11. Climate

    Adapting to climate change: Let us consider the ways

    Many organisms do have tools to deal with sudden environmental changes, as freelance writer and Science News “Wild Things” blogger Sarah Zielinski reports.

    By Eva Emerson
  12. Climate

    Windblown dust may muck up regional climate predictions

    Climate simulations don’t accurately portray the behavior of windblown dust, which may result in inaccurate regional forecasts.

    By Beth Mole