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Date: October 2009
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Sleep deprivation can cause short-term memory loss and attention problems. Now scientists have found a way to reverse these effects, in mice at least. (Jupiter Images) |
OCT 30, 2009
  
Rescuing the brain from sleep deprivation, too much light can be depressing, sobering news in the treatment of chronic illness, and an installment of our new series, Reality Check.
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NOV 10, 2009 Planetary Alignment Myth
NOV 11, 2009 Sleep Deprivation
NOV 12, 2009 Depression & Light
NOV 18, 2009 Asthma Patients
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Dog noses are finely-tuned sniffing devices. But scientists are trying their best to replicate the canine sense of smell. (Jupiter Images) |
OCT 23, 2009
Lies parents tell their children. Is comfort food a fallacy? Imitating the dog's nose. And computer-facilitated brain-to-brain communication.
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OCT 28, 2009 Brain to Brain Interface
OCT 30, 2009 Smell and Taste Roundup
NOV 2, 2009 Comfort Food Fallacy
NOV 3, 2009 Parental Lies
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The mostly-vegetarian spider Bagheera kiplingi chows down on its favorite meal. (R. L. Curry) |
OCT 16, 2009
Debunking 2012 doomsday hype, developing a better rocket fuel, vegetarian spiders, and the genetics of aggression in Africanized bees.
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OCT 26, 2009 2012 Apocalypse Myth Exposed
OCT 27, 2009 Vegetarian Spiders
OCT 29, 2009 Green Rocket Propellant
NOV 4, 2009 Hybrid Bees
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Monarch butterflies use structures inside their antennae to navigate thousands of miles to Mexico. (Dennis Curtin) |
OCT 9, 2009
How Monarch butterflies navigate their way to Mexico, do honeybees really die when they sting you, why apologies are better than cash, and brain scans that reconstruct what you were just looking at.
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OCT 13, 2009 Bee Stings
OCT 19, 2009 Reading Brains
OCT 20, 2009 Butterfly Navigation
OCT 22, 2009 Corporate Apologies
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Probably life appearance in anterior view of Ardipithicus ramidus (J.H. Matternes) |
OCT 2, 2009
An ancient hominid skeleton revises human evolution, the MESSENGER spacecraft makes its final flyby of the planet Mercury, facial contrasts and the use of cosmetics, and why your shower isn't as clean as you thought.
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OCT 12, 2009 Ardipithicus Fossil
OCT 14, 2009 Facial Contrast
OCT 16, 2009 Mercury Flyby
OCT 21, 2009 Infected Shower Heads
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