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Tape Data Storage Makes A Comeback
Sony's new process lets them store more than 185 terabytes of data on a single tape cartridge. Larry Greenemeier reports.
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Melt of Key Antarctic Glaciers "Unstoppable"
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Oenophiles Confirm Fruity Flavors Finish First
Wine researchers find that fruity flavors tend to finish quickest on the palate, whereas oaky flavors linger longer--as aficionados have long claimed. Christopher Intagliata reports.
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Guest Blog
Health
Parasitic Worms Wiggle Into Modern Medicine [Q&A]
In 2006, a man named Jasper Lawrence travelled to Africa to infect himself with hookworm by walking barefoot in a steaming mound of human excrement. -
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A Look under the Hood of Online Data Visualization
Andy Kirk (of Visualising Data) recently published a clever image-driven post in which he uses automobiles to make a series of points about the practice of data visualization. -
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Aquanaut Dives Deep and Dies, Disheartening Scientists
Efforts to explore the deepest recesses of Earth's oceans were dealt a heavy blow last weekend when one of history's most accomplished deep-sea explorers imploded several kilometers beneath the Pacific and resurfaced in pieces. -
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Mind & Brain
Health Care Crisis Looms as China Faces Elderly Dementia Upsurge
A growing population of elderly people with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia in China threatens to overwhelm the country’s social support systems -
Expeditions
Technology
To Hades and Back: Nereus Lost
ABOARD THE R/V THOMAS G. THOMPSON—In the early morning hours of Saturday, May 10, we were on the seafloor in the deepest part of the Kermadec Trench when all of the video screens in the Nereus control room went dark. -
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Evolution
The Monsters We Adore
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Streams of Consciousness
Mind & Brain
What Is Vertigo? [Video]
// Learn what causes dizziness in this new video from Scientific American‘s Instant Egghead series. In this short movie, I explain how your inner ears work to help you balance, orient yourself and see what’s around you in a stable fashion. -
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New Brain Cells Erase Old Memories
Neurogenesis interferes with past learning in infant and adult mice -
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Does Rice Farming Lead to Collectivist Thinking?
Psychologists find that the agricultural region in China where people grew up predicted whether they have an individualistic or communal outlook -
Environmental Health News
Energy & Sustainability
Drugs, Chemicals Seep Deep into Soil from Sewage Sludge
The widespread use of biosolids could contaminate groundwater near farms with a variety of chemicals, including anti-depressants such as Prozac and hormone-disrupting compounds in antibacterial soaps -
Plugged In
Energy & Sustainability
Senate bill shines light on the energy-water nexus
In the United States, 410 billion gallons of water are withdrawn for use each day. Almost half (49%) of this water is used by the power sector. -
Climatewire
Energy & Sustainability
Water Weight Used to Calculate the Amount of Snow in California with GPS
More accurate, cheaper measurements of snowpack can help the state, struggling with drought, to better manage water flows -
Oscillator
Health
Which bacteria are in my poop? It depends where you look...
This is a guest post from my friend and former colleague Tami Lieberman. She’s a postdoc in the Kishony Lab in the Department of Systems Biology at the Harvard Medical School, and you follow her on twitter @conTAMInatedsci. -
Absolutely Maybe
Health
Science in the Abstract: Don't Judge a Study by its Cover
A competition for attention lies at the heart of the scientific enterprise. And the abstract is its “blurb.” A scientific abstract is a summary used to attract readers to an article and to get a piece of research accepted for a conference presentation. -
Scientific American Volume 310, Issue 5
Evolution
Computer Models Improve Odds of Fossil-Hunting Success
Luck has played a big part in many of the world's great fossil discoveries. New models predict where the bones are and put serendipity in the backseat -
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Energy & Sustainability
Post-BP Oil Spill Gulf Restoration Projects So Far Lack Basis in Science [Slide Show]
Few funds generated by the Deepwater Horizon disaster have been allocated as yet to return the Gulf of Mexico’s marshes and ecosystems to a healthier state, leading to “random acts of restoration”
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