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Science News is an award-winning weekly newsmagazine covering the most important research in all fields of science. Its 16 pages each week are packed with short, accurate articles that appeal to both general readers and scientists. Published since 1922, the magazine now reaches about 150,000 subscribers and more than 1 million readers.
These are the latest Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, Articles and Book Reviews from Science News .
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Study clarifies obesity-infertility link
Effect of insulin in pituitary surprises scientists
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Science & the Public: No 'dead zone' from BP oil
Deep sea mixing kept microbes from creating suffocating parcels of water in the Gulf
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FOR KIDS: Gulf oil finds many paths
Questions, and lots of oil, remain months after Gulf disaster
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FOR KIDS: Poop-sniffing mice to the rescue
Animals can detect droppings left by ducks with Bird Flu
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Light-harvesting complexes do it themselves
New technique could yield self-assembling solar cells
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Changing one of nature's constants
If correct, new finding could upend physicists’ view of universe
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Microbe’s survival manual
Researchers uncover how D. radiodurans can withstand extreme radiation
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DVDs don’t turn toddlers into vocabulary Einsteins
But some parents mistakenly think kids do learn words from watching these popular programs
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String theory entangled
Equations can be retooled to describe a strange quantum effect
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Science & the Public: Gloves may head off ‘garden’ variety pneumonia
Doctors have begun linking garden compost to an unusual source of Legionnaire’s disease
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Geomagnetic field flip-flops in a flash
Scientists unearth more evidence of superfast changes in Earth’s magnetic polarity
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Diabetes drug might fight cancer
In use for years, metformin has few side effects
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Feud over family ties in evolution
Prominent scientists dispute kinship’s role in self-sacrifice among highly social creatures
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Alzheimer’s trade-off for mentally active seniors
Stimulation delays cognitive decline, but disease advances quickly once it starts
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Alzheimer’s trade-off for mentally active seniors
Stimulation delays cognitive decline, but disease advances quickly once it starts
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Hints of altruism among bacteria
E. coli defend against antibiotics with a little help from their friends
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Ovary removal proves beneficial for cancer-prone women
BRCA mutation carriers who opt for surgery survive longer than those forgoing the operation
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Why starved flies need less sleep
Low lipid levels keep insects buzzing, a new study finds
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Science & the Public: Tar sands 'fingerprint' seen in rivers and snow
New data counter claims that the pollution was from natural oily seeps
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