TOP 100 SCIENCE SITES
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| Astronauts Replace Spent Station Tank The astronauts spent six hours and 45 minutes outside the station removing a spent refrigerator-size tank and replacing it with one full of pressurized nitrogen, in addition to performing other tasks. nytimes.com |
Pitch is key to cocktail party conversation: study LONDON (Reuters) - Cutting through the chatter to understand a conversation during a crowded cocktail party is a gift researchers said on Wednesday stems from how the brain distinguishes the pitch of different voices. feeds.reuters.com |
An Appraisal: For Clarke, Issues of Faith, but Tackled Scientifically Arthur C. Clarke’s science fiction was religious in the largest sense of religion: speculating about beginnings and endings, and how we get from one to the other. nytimes.com |
A disease that allowed torrents of creativity Some patients with FTD develop artistic abilities when frontal brain areas decline and posterior regions take over. iht.com |
PETA’s Latest Tactic: $1 Million for Fake Meat The group is offering $1 million to the first person to create a method to produce commercially viable quantities of in vitro meat at competitive prices by 2012. nytimes.com |