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  1. Health & Medicine

    Hard mattresses not best for back pain

    People sleeping on medium-firm mattresses report less pain than those sleeping on firm mattresses, contradicting a long-held belief that harder is better.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Hard mattresses not best for back pain

    People sleeping on medium-firm mattresses report less pain than those sleeping on firm mattresses, contradicting a long-held belief that harder is better.

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  3. Anthropology

    Baboons demonstrate social proficiency

    Wild baboons exhibit a richer, more complex social life than scientists have often assumed, according to two new studies.

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  4. Anthropology

    Baboons demonstrate social proficiency

    Wild baboons exhibit a richer, more complex social life than scientists have often assumed, according to two new studies.

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  5. Humans

    Science News of the Year 2003

    A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the year 2003.

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  6. Humans

    Undignified Science

    Research advances in 2003 heralded a string of unexpected scientific indignities that will occur in the future, at least in the fevered imagination of one writer.

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  7. Humans

    Undignified Science

    Research advances in 2003 heralded a string of unexpected scientific indignities that will occur in the future, at least in the fevered imagination of one writer.

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  8. Humans

    Letters

    Letters from the Dec. 20 & 27, 2003, issue of Science News.

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  9. Humans

    Letters

    Letters from the Dec. 20 & 27, 2003, issue of Science News.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Risk Profile: C-reactive protein may presage hypertension

    High concentrations of the inflammatory compound C-reactive protein may signal an elevated risk of high blood pressure.

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  11. Humans

    Letters

    Letters from the Dec. 13, 2003, issue of Science News.

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  12. Humans

    Panel turns critical eye on testosterone

    Existing evidence does not justify claims that testosterone treatments can relieve or prevent age-related problems in men, a panel of medical experts has concluded.

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