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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
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Science & the Public: Obama selects Steven Chu as Energy Secretary

Featured blog: Chu is an energy researcher who also shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics.
Found in: Matter & Energy, Science & Society and Technology
Calculating the geography of crime

A mathematician fine-tunes how to blend crime records, geography to track down serial criminals.
Found in: Numbers and Science & Society
Candy cane strategy sweetens life for goldenrods

Goldenrods temporarily duck their heads during pest season
Found in: Agriculture, Biology, Botany, Ecology and Life
Science & Society: News of the year, 2008

Science News writers and editors looked back at the past year's stories and selected a handful as the year's most interesting and important in the interface of Science & Society. Follow hotlinks to the full, original stories.
Found in: Science & Society
Science & the Public: Big Increase Coming for NIH — Maybe

The Obama administration hopes to do what lawmakers couldn't last year — give an extra $1 billion to NIH.
Found in: Biomedicine and Science & Society
EPA should test demasculinizing pollutants collectively, NRC says

Cumulative effects of phthalates and related compounds likely larger than effects measured one chemical at a time, reports a National Research Council panel.
Found in: Body & Brain, Environment and Science & Society
Science & the Public: Holdren to Head White House Science

It appears that another physicist with Nobel ties is set to become the primary Obama adviser on science.
Found in: Climate Change, Physics and Science & Society
Science & the Public: Thwarting Tree Poachers

A new federal rule makes it harder to destroy protected forests.
Found in: Climate Change, Ecology, Environment and Science & Society
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Sights and Sounds

Photography

Atom Flipping
New equations for better MRI

Blogs:

Science & the Public Big Increase Coming for NIH — Maybe
By Janet Raloff Dec 19th 2008

Columns:

Comment SESAME opens doors to international collaboration
By Herman Winick Jan 2nd 2009

Math Trek The Sudoku solution
By Julie Rehmeyer Dec 23rd 2008

Not to Miss:

2008: Science News of the Year

Thwarting tree poachers

Pulsars in a new light

Guest column from Steven Chu

SN Bookshelf:

Book Review: Food Bites: The Science of the Foods We Eat by Richard W. Hartel and AnnaKate Hartel
Review by Dina Fine Maron
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Book Review: Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle by Daniel L. Everett
Review by Bruce Bower
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Planet Earth: An Illustrated History
A photographic tribute to the glories of nature, including picturesque landscapes, stunning aer...
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