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  1. Chemistry

    Sense of Wonder

    Multigenerational projects may help us visualize the big picture.

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  2. Humans

    Letters from the March 22, 2008, issue of Science News

    The price of water In reference to the article “Going Down: Climate change, water use threaten Lake Mead” (SN: 2/23/08, p. 115), scarcity requires society to allocate. Usually markets do a better job than law at allocating efficiently and fairly. Lake Mead could remain full to the brim regardless of pending climate change. The quoted […]

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  3. Earth

    The Costs of Meat and Fish

    The purchase price is often but a small part of the true cost of many animal products in the diet.

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  4. Humans

    From the March 12, 1938, issue

    An extinct cinder cone captured from above, a mystery gland's connection to male virility, and growing fodder indoors for winter feeding.

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  5. Humans

    Tomorrow’s Stars: Intel Science Talent Search honors high achievers

    The Intel Science Talent Search announced its winners at a gala dinner honoring the competition's 40 finalists.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Dual Role: Painkiller may affect brain

    A class of drugs being developed to block pain could obstruct memory formation as well.

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  7. Anthropology

    Small Wonders: Tiny islanders elevate ‘hobbit’ debate

    The discovery in two South Pacific caves of bones from an extinct group of half-size humans has fueled the already heated scientific debate over the evolutionary identity of so-called hobbit remains from Indonesia.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Roll Up Your Sleeve: Hypertension vaccine passes early test

    An angiotensin vaccine stifles high blood pressure in an early test in people.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Vatican Identifies Sinful Field of Science

    Would the Pope have shut down Gregor Mendel’s pea studies?

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  10. Humans

    Letters from the March 15, 2008, issue of Science News

    Alpha bird(s) There is a detail not explicit in the article “Birds network too” (SN: 2/23/08, p. 125) that fits the computer network analogy. By its flight path, each bird adds its personal input and helps guide the course of the flock. Don BurnapRapid City, S.D. Andrea Cavagna, a physicist at Italy’s National Research Council, […]

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  11. Health & Medicine

    New technique brings Parkinson’s treatment closer

    An efficient technique to make dopamine-producing nerve cells from human embryonic stem cells could mark a step toward devising therapies for Parkinson's disease.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Exercises counteract lazy eye

    Amblyopia, or lazy eye, can be reversed in adults with visual task exercises.

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