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In the December 5 Issue:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Climate might be right for a deal: Copenhagen negotiations will take steps toward a climate-stabilizing treaty
- Botanical Whales: Adventures in the Tortugas reveal that seagrass fields need saving too
- Breaking the Speed Limit: Studies examine physiology and technology to better foresee the ultimate edge of human performance
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December 6th, 2008
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The first images of a planetary system beyond the solar system are released, while the Hubble Space Telescope snaps a shot of likely planet orbiting a nearby star. (p. 5)
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Reviving ancient genomes of long-extinct creatures offers a window into past extinctions—and may help prevent future die outs (p. 18)
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Even as biologists catalog the discrete parts of life forms, an emerging picture reveals that life’s functions arise from interconnectedness (p. 22)
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Informing the debate over the reality of ‘free will’ requires learning something about the lateral habenula (p. 28)
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Early exposure to peanuts in a baby’s diet seems to lessen the risk of developing a peanut allergy later. (p. 8)
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Patients admitted to hospitals with mild symptoms of a heart attack may benefit from getting a heart catheterization performed promptly. (p. 9)
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Viral heart infections respond to interferon treatment, easing cardiomyopathy in some patients. (p. 9)
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Turns out, the variety and number of minerals in the solar system and on Earth have increased through time, and some minerals exist because Earth has life. (p. 10)
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First large-scale inventory of microbes charts types, locales of bacteria. (p. 11)
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Common household “oxy” cleaners remove blood almost too well. (p. 12)
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The texture of surfaces could be designed so that both water and oil can bead up and thus flow off. (p. 12)
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Researchers have found an approximately 1-million-year-old fossil pelvis that, in their view, indicates that Homo erectus females gave birth to surprisingly big-brained babies. (p. 14)
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A research team in Israel has uncovered one of the oldest known graves of a shaman. The 12,000-year-old grave hosts a woman’s skeleton surrounded by the remains of unusual animals. (p. 14)
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During an experiment in Fermilab's Tevatron particle accelerator, a group of elementary particles called muons showed up in a strange place. Physicists are considering the likely implications. (p. 15)
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A time-travel scenario permitted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity offers a bit of possibility for breaking quantum encryption. (p. 15)
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Scientists have developed a technique for inducing an illusion of having swapped one’s own body with someone else’s body, providing a new means for investigating self-identity and body-image disorders. (p. 16)
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A brain imaging study reveals that some people are as giddy as teenagers in love, even after two decades of marriage. (p. 17)
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