Humans

  1. Health & Medicine

    Putting Labels on Nutrients

    After all the holiday partying, it’s probably time for most people to get back in the habit of checking the labels on food. Which frozen desert has less fat per serving? Which cereal has the recommended amounts of iron and folic acid? FDA But do those nutrition fact boxes on packaged foods supply the information […]

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Pivotal Protein: Inhibiting immune compound slows sepsis

    By restraining the action of an immune system protein that can run amok, scientists experimenting on mice have reversed the course of severe sepsis.

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  3. Humans

    Letters

    Letters from the Jan. 3, 2004, issue of Science News.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Protein found central to ecstasy fever

    Scientists have identified a protein contributing to the high fevers that are sometimes generated by the drug ecstasy.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Cold Comfort . . . Not!

    No doubt about it: We’re in the throes of cold and flu season. Sniffles, coughs, sneezes, headaches, scratchy throats, loss of appetite, stuffy heads, and occasional vomiting can leave us feeling wretched for days to weeks on end. The youngest sufferers are especially miserable. Echinacea purpurea, a species of the purple coneflower, is the main […]

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  6. Humans

    From the December 16 & 23, 1933, issues

    STRENGTH OF CRATES TESTED BY TOSSING An important phase of the work of the timber mechanics department of the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Wis., has been to perfect the designing and nailing of these boxes so that their durability is greater. Chemically treated nails and reinforcement by diagonal braces have given more rigidity […]

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  7. Humans

    From the December 16 & 23, 1933, issues

    STRENGTH OF CRATES TESTED BY TOSSING An important phase of the work of the timber mechanics department of the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Wis., has been to perfect the designing and nailing of these boxes so that their durability is greater. Chemically treated nails and reinforcement by diagonal braces have given more rigidity […]

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  8. Humans

    Science News Challenge

    Try the Science News current-events crossword puzzle.

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  9. Humans

    Science News Challenge

    Try the Science News current-events crossword puzzle.

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  10. Archaeology

    Bones of Invention: German cave yields Stone Age figurines

    Three ivory figurines found in southwestern Germany may belong to one of the world's oldest known art traditions, dating to more than 30,000 years ago.

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  11. Archaeology

    Bones of Invention: German cave yields Stone Age figurines

    Three ivory figurines found in southwestern Germany may belong to one of the world's oldest known art traditions, dating to more than 30,000 years ago.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Cardiac Connection: Lupus patients exhibit signs of heart disease

    Lupus patients have more signs of atherosclerosis than do healthy people, suggesting that the inflammation that causes many lupus symptoms also damages blood vessels.

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