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A brain-boosting video game.
Sep 16, 2009 ... In the video game Tetris, players try to pack as many shapes as possible into a small space. According to a new study, that's not all they're doing: Scientists found a connection between playing Tetris and the size of part of the brain. Fitting together differently shaped blocks ...
A gassy threat from above.
Sep 16, 2009 ... In the chair at the dentist's office, nitrous oxide is better known as "laughing gas"--it's used to knock out patients during uncomfortable procedures. That's not the only place where laughing gas shows up, however. The nitrogen-based fertilizers spread on farm fields, ...
Penguin pressure.
Sep 16, 2009; ... Dee Boersma was studying penguins in Argentina when a local official announced a new plan. "He wanted to build a boardwalk over 197 [penguin] nests right before hatching," says Boersma, a conservation scientist at the University of Washington, Seattle. She knew the project would ...
Worm glue.
Sep 09, 2009; ... This sandcastle worm lives in the laboratory where scientists can study it. The worm built its house in the lab from small white beads instead of bits of shell and sand. Scientists have created a glue similar to the worm's glue that may one day be used in bone surgery. Russell ...
Making good, brown fat.
Sep 09, 2009 ... The energy-burning brown fat cells shown here were made by the skin cells of mice. Green dots are oil droplets, red dots are mitochondria and each blue sphere is the nucleus of a cell. Shingo Kajimura Not all fats are created equal: There's white fat, which stores ...