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Night Of The Crusher / Science News
Science News — The waking nightmare of sleep paralysis propels people into a spirit worldMore…
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PLoS MEDICINE
Science News — Children with older fathers score lower on cognitive tests than those with younger fathers, regardless of mothers' ages, a new study finds Father knows best, but his kids might fall a bit short if he conceives them after age 50. Children of older ...More…
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Public Tantrums Defeat Monkey Moms Too / Science News
Science News — Bystanders make rhesus macaque mom's capitulation more likely Baby screams. Onlookers glower. Mom gives in - even when she's a monkey. Rhesus macaque mothers are about twice as likely to let a howling infant have its way during very public ...More…
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Ouch! Way Worse Than Plagiarism / Science News
Science News — In two investigative news stories, Adam Marcus describes the case against anesthesiologist Scott S. Reuben. This prominent Massachusetts pain researcher is accused of faking data that served as the basis for a minimum of 21 published medical ...More…
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Otters And Oil: Problems Remain / Science News
Science News — Twenty years later, otter populations throughout most of the Sound, especially its western reaches, have largely bounced back, notes James Bodkin, a wildlife scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Anchorage. But in areas immediately ...More…
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Counterintuitive Nutrition Findings / Science News
Science News — The federal government performs periodic National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys to keep tabs on the wellbeing and eating habits of a representative cross section of the U.S. population. Debra R. Keast of Food & Nutrition Database ...More…
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To Limit Sweet Indulgences, Chew, Chew, Chew / Science News
Science News — Or so concludes a new study, reported yesterday morning at the Experimental Biology meeting, in New Orleans. It was (surprise, surprise) funded by the Wrigley Science Institute, a four-year-old research arm of the famed Chicago-based chewing gum ...More…
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News From Experimental Biology / Science News
Science News — Senior editor Janet Raloff blogs from the 2009 meeting gathering dozens of societies together in New Orleans Some female athletes may pay a price for using oral contraception: lower strength gains from resistance exercise. These muscle-building ...More…
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Swarm Savvy / Science News
Science News — How bees, ants and other animals avoid dumb collective decisions This is a phone conversation, so if Tom Seeley rolls his eyes, that's his business. He's a distinguished behavioral biologist, full professor at Cornell University, member of the ...More…
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Island Press, 2009, 307 p., $24.95.
Science News — Hightower eventually traces the symptoms to diets rich in big fish such as tuna and swordfish, the types that accumulate high concentrations of methylmercury. Her cure: Forgo eating fish for up to a year. Now Hightower takes readers along on her ...More…
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Barron's Educational Series, 2009, 960 p., $35.
Science News — Countless inventions, large and small, have played defining roles in human history. But when editor Jack Challoner began to compile a list of these innovations, he wondered if 1,001 might be too many. He quickly realized the number was far too small.More…