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Silk: Mimicking how spiders make their complex array of silks could usher in a tapestry of new materials, and other animals or plants could be designed to be the producers
Itch: Scientists trace a new path behind the maddening, unrelenting, screaming desire to scratch
Half-life (more or less): Physicists are stirred by claims that the sun may change what’s unchangeable—the rate of radioactive decay
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Science & the Public : The Case for Very Hot Water

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Turning down the thermostat on a home's water heater could foster the growth of toxic bacteria in home plumbing.

Published: Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Found in: Biology, Biomedicine, Environment, Science & Society and Technology
Science & the Public : Big Water Losses

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America's ailing water-delivery infrastructure is literally throwing clean water away -- and dirtying some of what it moves toward our taps.

Published: Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Found in: Environment, Science & Society and Technology
Heat sensors guide insects to a hot meal

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Bugs home in on seeds by detecting infrared radiation.

Published: Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Found in: Environment, Life and Physics
Elephants' struggle with poaching lingers on

Home / News / November 8th, 2008; Vol.174 #10 / Elephants' struggle with poaching lingers on

Even as African elephants struggle to recover from decades-old poaching, the animals face new and renewed threats today. (p. 5)

Published: November 8th, 2008; Vol.174 #10
Found in: Environment, Life and Science & Society
Science & the Public : Coal Country's New Foresters

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New techniques may be shaving a century or two off the recovery of mined mountain tops.

Published: Monday, October 20th, 2008
Found in: Environment, Matter & Energy, Science & Society and Technology
Science & the Public : Trading Forests for Coal

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Forested mountain peaks have been giving way to grassy planes in Appalachian coal country.

Published: Saturday, October 18th, 2008
Found in: Environment, Matter & Energy, Science & Society and Technology
Science & the Public : Really Cool History

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Tales of the black band: Clues to a 4,200-year-old mystery lie frozen in icy records stored atop Mt. Kilimanjaro.

Published: Friday, October 17th, 2008
Found in: Archaeology, Climate Change, Earth Science, Environment and Science & Society
Science & the Public : Eggs, Tea and Mr. IPCC

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Even jet-lagged, the world's lead climate negotiator took time out to brief a few reporters.

Published: Friday, October 17th, 2008
Found in: Climate Change, Environment, Matter & Energy and Science & Society
An electronic nose that smells plants' pain

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Device can detect distress signals from plants that are harmed, under attack.

Published: Friday, October 17th, 2008
Found in: Biology, Botany and Environment
Science & the Public : The News Climate

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Whether people choose to peruse news — and where — may explain what role science plays in shaping public opinion on global warming.

Published: Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
Found in: Climate Change and Science & Society
Cooling climate ‘consensus’ of 1970s never was

Home / News / October 25th, 2008; Vol.174 #9 / Cooling climate ‘consensus’ of 1970s never was

Myth often cited by global warming skeptics debunked. (p. 5)

Published: October 25th, 2008; Vol.174 #9
Found in: Climate Change and Science & Society
Science & the Public : Glacier melts are erasing climate record

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Featured blog: As glaciers continue to dry up, so does any hope of gleaning information from them about the past climate record.

Published: Sunday, October 12th, 2008
Found in: Climate Change, Earth Science, Environment and Science & Society
Salinity sensors

Home / News / November 8th, 2008; Vol.174 #10 / Salinity sensors

Trace elements in the carbonate shells of freshwater mussels could serve as an archive of road salt pollution. (p. 16)

Published: November 8th, 2008; Vol.174 #10
Found in: Earth, Environment and Life
Bad air for growing brains and minds

Home / News / November 8th, 2008; Vol.174 #10 / Bad air for growing brains and minds

Preliminary evidence suggests that children’s regular exposure to heavy air pollution can be accompanied by brain inflammation and lowered scores on intelligence tests. (p. 18)

Published: November 8th, 2008; Vol.174 #10
Found in: Body & Brain, Environment and Humans
Climate warms, creatures head for the hills

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Unusual data let scientists test predictions that global warming drives species up slopes.

Published: Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Found in: Climate Change and Life

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