Recently added articles from Science News:
Solving sleep's mysteries seems a Herculean task.(FROM THE EDITOR)(Editorial)
Oct 24, 2009; ... In the centuries since the early days of Greek civilization, mythological explanations for natural phenomena have steadily succumbed to the insights of science. Lightning bolts flash in the sky not from the wrath of Zeus, but because of electrical charges in clouds. The sun is a ...
Scientific observations.(SCIENCE NOTEBOOK)(Kevin Padian quotation)(Quotation)
Oct 24, 2009; ... "Surveys show that only about a third of U.S. respondents have a problem with evolution and religion. These are fundamentalists, and there is no need to convert or argue with them. But another 40-50 percent of mainstream Americans would be open to evolution, except that they get all this ...
Science past: from the issue of October 24, 1959.(SCIENCE NOTEBOOK)(duodenal ulcers)(Brief article)
Oct 24, 2009 ... SONS WITH ULCERS HAVE DOMINANT MOTHERS--Men who get duodenal ulcers early in life tend to have dominant mothers and submissive fathers. In a Medical Research Council report, a research team recorded that two-thirds of a group of men who got ulcers before they were 25 had mothers who were ...
Science future.(SCIENCE NOTEBOOK)(Brief article)(Calendar)
Oct 24, 2009 ... November 4-8 Clinicians and researchers meet in San Diego to discuss advances in psychiatric genetics. Visit www.ispg2009.org Through November 21 Watch Gearing Up, a documentary about the ...
Atom & cosmos.(SN Online: www.sciencenews.org)
Oct 24, 2009 ... Black holes may make the universe more disorderly than researchers ...