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- Let’s Get Vertical: City buildings offer opportunities for farms to grow up instead of out
- Dead — but not duds: White dwarfs shed light on physics and the fate of the cosmos
- The Science Vote: Science News runs down what the two presidential candidates and their campaigns have been saying about science and technology issues.
- This week's table of contents
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March 15th, 2008
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Radiation left over from the Big Bang offers researchers unprecedented cosmic understanding. (p. 163)
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An angiotensin vaccine stifles high blood pressure in an early test in people. (p. 163)
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Roundworms, yeast, and humans share more than a dozen genes linked to aging. (p. 164)
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The North Atlantic's Gulf Stream affects the overlying atmosphere more strongly than previously suspected. (p. 164)
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Alligator researchers say they have discovered a new role for lungs as maneuvering aids under water. (p. 164)
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The discovery in two South Pacific caves of bones from an extinct group of half-size humans has fueled the already heated scientific debate over the evolutionary identity of so-called hobbit remains from Indonesia. (p. 165)
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A class of drugs being developed to block pain could obstruct memory formation as well. (p. 166)
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The Intel Science Talent Search announced its winners at a gala dinner honoring the competition's 40 finalists. (p. 166)
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Bloodless MRI seeks a more direct window into the working brain than conventional techniques. (p. 168)
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Increasing carbon dioxide in the air is changing the pH of the ocean, which could mean very different communities of sea creatures. (p. 170)
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A new analysis suggests that five different spacecraft gained more speed as they flew past Earth than can be accounted for by Einstein's theory of gravitation. (p. 173)
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Democratic societies with market economies promote a moral ethic of cooperating with strangers who demand mutual sacrifices in joint ventures. (p. 173)
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A material inspired by sea cucumbers morphs from rigid to soft. (p. 173)
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An fMRI scan of the brain can tell what photograph a subject is looking at. (p. 173)
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Amblyopia, or lazy eye, can be reversed in adults with visual task exercises. (p. 174)
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An efficient technique to make dopamine-producing nerve cells from human embryonic stem cells could mark a step toward devising therapies for Parkinson's disease. (p. 174)
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City living pushes for rapid evolution in the seed strategy of a little yellow flower along French sidewalks. (p. 174)
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