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Disabling cellular assassin prevents cancer
01 08 2010 Counterintuitive experiment may help explain why survivors are more vulnerable to other malignancies
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Not just a pleasant sound
31 07 2010 When people use music to share stories, comfort peers or worship gods, it takes on new meaning. Music’s roles vary depending on time and place. Bonding: Battle hymns, national...
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Seeking a definition
31 07 2010 Pitch is determined by a sound’s frequency. Notes that sit in different positions on a musical scale, called tones, have different pitches. Modern Western music, for example, combines 12 ton...
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Birth of the beat
31 07 2010 Music’s roots may lie in melodic exchanges between mothers and babies
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Issue for the week of August 14th, 2010
31 07 2010 August 14, 2010 Issue of Science News
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Dark matter eldorado
31 07 2010 Nearby galaxy holds record for densest concentration of mysterious mass
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For ducks, penis length depends on the other guys
31 07 2010 Genitals grow longer with more male competition
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Behold, the antilaser
31 07 2010 Physicists conceive a ‘perfect absorber’
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A mind for music
31 07 2010 Read features from the special editionArticles in A mind for music. | GoDownload a PDF of the special editionExclusive for Science News subscribers.Download | SubscribeThere are very ...
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Take two stanzas and call me in the morning
31 07 2010 From poets to politicians, people have long described music as medicine for the heart and soul. Now scientists are taking a literal look at such musings, investigating music as a means to allev...
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Music of the hemispheres
31 07 2010 Playing instruments gives brains a boost
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Evidence of ancient roots
31 07 2010 Though early hominids may have made sweet sounds by banging sticks and stones together, the oldest distinguishable instrument dates to 40,000 years ago. A flute made from vulture...
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Songs from the Stone Age
31 07 2010 No one knows for sure whether music played a key role in human evolution or came about as a kind of ear candy. But there are several scientifically inspired proposals for the origins of music, ...
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Your brain on music
31 07 2010 Music lights up almost every area of the brain, which shouldn’t be a surprise since it makes people tap their feet, encourages the recollection of vivid memories and has the potential to ligh...
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Moody tunes
31 07 2010 To explore the effect that music has on the mind, Science News asked researchers to share a song they enjoy and the emotion it evokes. Ethan Ross, physicianSong: “Da...
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More than a feeling
31 07 2010 Emotionally evocative, yes, but music goes much deeper
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Book Review : Book Review: Almost Chimpanzee: Searching for What Makes Us Human, in Rainforests, Labs, Sanctuaries, and Zoos by Jon Cohen
30 07 2010 Review by Bruce Bower
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Comment: Whatever music is, it’s a basic part of being human by Ian Cross
30 07 2010 Music perception researcher Ian Cross ponders music's nature and significance
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Book Review : The Nesting Season: Cuckoos, Cuckolds, and the Invention of Monogamy by Bernd Heinrich
30 07 2010 A naturalist explores how birds find a mate and what this process says †and what it doesn’t say †about human relationships.Belknap Press, 2010, 404 p., $29.95.
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Book Review : Planet Hunter: Geoff Marcy and the Search for Other Earths by Vicki Oransky Wittenstein
30 07 2010 A look at exoplanet hunting based on one astronomer’s life and work. Aimed at young adults.Boyds Mills Press, 2010, 48 p., $17.95.
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Science & the Public: EPA rejects climate-change deniers’ petitions
30 07 2010 It said they got the science wrong.
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Noisy bacteria
30 07 2010 Cell-by-cell analysis finds big differences among genetically identical cells
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Lemurs on contraceptives don’t smell right
29 07 2010 Birth control disrupts female odors that are important social cues
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Sadness response strengthens with age
29 07 2010 In study, older people reacted more strongly to sad scenes than twentysomethings did
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Genetics redraws marsupial family tree
28 07 2010 New analysis traces group’s origins to South America
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