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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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October 27th, 2007
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Dinosaurs remains fossilized within an ancient burrow are the first indisputable evidence that some dinosaurs maintained an underground lifestyle. (p. 259)
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In experiments that created the heaviest isotope yet of magnesium, an unexpected isotope of aluminum also showed up. (p. 260)
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Mice that spend time on a mildly vibrating platform develop bone or muscle cells in preference to fat cells. (p. 260)
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The discovery of a black hole almost 16 times as massive as the sun, and the possible discovery of an even heavier one, challenge theories of how such black holes form. (p. 261)
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Just an hour's swim in slightly contaminated water can give a fish such bad body odor that its schoolmates shun it. (p. 262)
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Epidemiologists and social scientists are tapping into virtual online worlds inhabited by millions to collect data with real-world uses. (p. 264)
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Parts of Australia have suffered from severe drought for more than a decade, and people, vegetation, and animals are feeling the heat. (p. 266)
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A newly discovered supernova, 100 billion times as bright as the sun, is the most luminous ever recorded. (p. 269)
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A new polymer membrane that efficiently separates carbon dioxide from methane could greatly ease the processing of natural gas. (p. 269)
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Loss of nitric oxide from donated blood that's been stored for as little as 3 hours could impair its ability to flow through a recipient's blood vessels. (p. 269)
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A math group is offering all U.S. middle schools free materials to set up clubs aimed at making math fun. (p. 269)
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Children whose stomachs carry the bacterium Helicobacter pylori are at lower risk for asthma than children who don't have the bug. (p. 270)
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Repeat episodes of Lyme disease are more likely caused by a second tick bite rather than by a return of the original illness. (p. 270)
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A virus that causes debilitating fever and joint pain has spread from Africa to Italy, where it has caused at least 284 cases of illness. (p. 270)
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With drug treatment, HIV-infected people no longer suffer from wasting but are about as overweight or obese as the U.S. population as a whole. (p. 270)
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