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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 Articles from Science News .
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Cooking can be surprisingly forgiving

Wed, 11/23/2011 - 12:23pm
Network analysis confirms ingredient swaps are feasible
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Cretaceous Thanksgiving

Wed, 11/23/2011 - 12:16pm
Feathered dino ate true bird
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Radiation sickness treatment shows promise

Wed, 11/23/2011 - 12:12pm
Regimen could be used in the aftermath of major incidents
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DNA to flutter by

Wed, 11/23/2011 - 11:10am
Monarchs’ genetic instructions help meet migration, navigation needs
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Oxygen a bit player in Earth's outer core

Wed, 11/23/2011 - 10:34am
Sulfur and silicon may be more abundant in the planet’s heart
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FOR KIDS: Young scientists work together and win

Wed, 11/23/2011 - 9:37am
Broadcom MASTERS competitors qualified with individual projects, but won based on team challenges
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FOR KIDS: What a dream looks like

Wed, 11/23/2011 - 9:33am
Brain scans show the brain’s activity during a dream
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FOR KIDS: The secret songs of giant beavers

Wed, 11/23/2011 - 9:32am
Scientists discover a noisemaking chamber in the extinct animal’s skull
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Getting the picture of how someone died

Wed, 11/23/2011 - 6:57am
CT scans of cadavers could make some autopsies unnecessary, British team suggests
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Unraveling synesthesia

Tue, 11/22/2011 - 2:56pm
Tangled senses may have genetic or chemical roots, or both
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Super Saturnian storm

Tue, 11/22/2011 - 12:04pm
Tempest’s life span captured by Cassini spacecraft
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Immune cells function beyond battle

Mon, 11/21/2011 - 2:06pm
Communications with collaborators in gut influence fat uptake
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Coffee delivers jolt deep in the brain

Mon, 11/21/2011 - 11:12am
Caffeine strengthens electrical signals in rats’ hippocampus
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Two feet or four, software is the same

Fri, 11/18/2011 - 1:34pm
All walking animals use the same basic nerve patterns to put one leg in front of the other(s)
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Babies may benefit from moms’ lasting melancholy

Fri, 11/18/2011 - 11:45am
Stable emotional conditions before and after birth key in infants’ health
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Earthly riches heaven sent

Wed, 09/07/2011 - 12:38pm
Meteorites may have peppered Earth with precious metals
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Brain stents pose risks

Wed, 09/07/2011 - 9:20am
Rates of death, stroke higher among patients who receive device in study
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In the dark, cave fish follows its own rhythm

Tue, 09/06/2011 - 1:28pm
An odd biological clock may help elucidate how daily cycles are set
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Explosive goes boom, but not too soon

Tue, 09/06/2011 - 12:35pm
Leavening a volatile new material with TNT yields safer substance
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If that’s a TV, this must be the den

Tue, 09/06/2011 - 10:30am
To the brain, scenes are sums of objects
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