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Articles Written by: JENNIFER BARONE
So should you blame genes—with labels like Lpl, Lactb, and Ppm1l—or fast food and failure to exercise for your weighty woes? The top researchers say they still don’t know.
Data from identical twins going back as far as the 1930s suggest that body ...
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3 Jun 2008
In January, public officials and residents of Orange County, California, toasted the culmination of a water supply project more than a decade in the making. But at these festivities champagne took a backseat to the beverage of choice as celebrants ...
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23 May 2008
Two and one-tenth pounds of carbon dioxide. That is our best estimate of what is emitted into the atmosphere when we harvest trees, turn the freshly milled paper into your individual copy of DISCOVER, get it into your hands, and see it to its final ...
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21 Apr 2008
THE QUESTION What drives us to be charitable to strangers when it is costly to ourselves? Researchers investigated the role that the hormone oxytocin plays in regulating our generous behavior.
THE METHOD Produced naturally during sexual arousal and ...
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4 Apr 2008
THE QUESTION Will switching from fossil fuels to biofuels really reduce greenhouse gases? We take a close look at two big, controversial studies that examine carbon emissions from the ecosystems torn down to produce biofuels.
THE METHODS Throughout ...
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3 Apr 2008
Just like love or anger, certainty is an emotion. So says neuroscientist Robert Burton, whose engaging new work exposes the involuntary, physiological roots of conviction. Whether you’re sure about political affiliations or alien abduction, that ...
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31 Mar 2008
Preventing disaster in an unruly world. 03.03.2008
These growths may look like little volcanoes, but they are are nothing of the sort. 03.02.2008
Smart appliances react to the grid to prevent blackouts—and pollution. 02.11.2008
A proposal to create ...
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5 Mar 2008
Rogue genetic snippets spread antibiotic resistance all over the environment. 02.14.2008
Get ready for diarrhea that's out of this world.02.01.2008
Humanity stomps nature but is still vulnerable to humanity.12.24.2007
The inside story of how scientists ...
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3 Mar 2008
Anyone who has ever locked eyes with a chimpanzee has probably felt our primate identity. Now paleontologist Neil Shubin—discoverer of the “fishapod” Tiktaalik, whose fins with wrists and elbows illustrate an evolutionary transition between ancient ...
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20 Feb 2008
THE QUESTION
Do emotions influence a cancer patient’s prognosis? In one of the largest, longest, and most controlled studies of its kind, researchers investigated whether the emotional state of cancer patients has any relationship to their ...
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10 Feb 2008
