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- It’s written all over your face: To potential mates, your mug may reveal more than you think
- Team spirit: Working together, bacteria and other microbes can accomplish much more than they can alone. Now scientists hope to harness that ability by engineering their own microbial consortia.
- For a big view of inner Earth, catch a few…Geoneutrinos
- This week's table of contents
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- Sirtuin shown to control gene activity A previously overlooked protein called SIRT6 provides some molecular clues to aging. Read the full story. | Jan 8th 2009 Found in: Biology, Biomedicine, Body & Brain and Genes & Cells
- Tuned in to new noise from the cosmos Unexplained radio noise may be signals from the early universe. Read the full story. | Jan 8th 2009 Found in: Atom & Cosmos
- Early C-sections pose risks Babies delivered by elective cesarean section just a week or two before 39 weeks of gestation face increased risk of respiratory and other complications. Read the full story. | Jan 7th 2009 Found in: Biology and Body & Brain
- In the young universe, black holes may have formed first Findings pose a possible answer to long-standing question of when the black holes at galactic centers formed. Read the full story. | Jan 7th 2009 Found in: Atom & Cosmos
- Parkinson’s brain surgery works in older patients, too A surgery in which two tiny electrodes are placed in the brain improves the quality of life of patients with Parkinson’s disease, including older patients, and seems to have only short-term side effects. Read the full story. | Jan 6th 2009 Found in: Body & Brain
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Calculating the geography of crime
1.8.09 - A mathematician fine-tunes how to blend crime records, geography to track down serial criminals Found in: Numbers and Science & Society
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Love song of the dengue vector mosquito
1.8.09 - Male and female mosquitoes match pitch when in the mood Found in: Life
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Migrants settled New World in tandem
1.8.09 - The first Americans may have traveled across a land bridge and south from Alaska in two separate groups at about the same time Found in: Humans
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Fifty-two things to do with a bat wing
1.7.09 - Scientists record a host of nonflight duties that might influence wing structure Found in: Life
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Record low for human blood oxygen levels
1.7.09 - Challenges in thin air of Everest could inform patient care Found in: Biology and Body & Brain
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Early asteroids unexpectedly crusty
1.7.09 - Mineralogy of two meteorites chronicles formation of crust on an ancient asteroid Found in: Earth and Earth Science
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FOR KIDS: Longer lives for wild elephants
1.7.09 - A surprising new study shows that female elephants in the wild might live up to three times longer than those born in zoos Found in: Life and Science News For Kids
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FOR KIDS: Body clocks
1.7.09 - Scientists are finding that when you sleep is just as important as how much you sleep Found in: Body & Brain and Science News For Kids
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FOR KIDS: Mood-boosting drugs make unhappy fish
1.7.09 - Drugs called antidepressants find their way into lakes and streams, affecting the behavior of fish living there in unexpected ways Found in: Life and Science News For Kids
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Astronomers get burst of details from early universe
1.6.09 - Unusually bright afterglow records what a galaxy was like soon after Big Bang Found in: Atom & Cosmos
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Evolution, 3-D animation of Cassiopeia A
1.6.09 - Videos chart old supernova remnant, give 3-D perspective Found in: Atom & Cosmos
- Mathematicians show how beetles can share a niche
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