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In This Issue
- ExtraSolar: Three new projects aim to capture a first: an image of a planet orbiting a star outside the solar system
- Simpleminded Voters: Informed citizens avoid information overload by taking strategic shortcuts before casting their ballots
- Forest invades tundra: ...and the new tenants could aggravate global warming
- This week's table of contents
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April 5th, 2008
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Boys with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder who take prescribed stimulant medication don't become more likely to abuse drugs than boys who don't receive the medication.
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Astronomers, for the first time, have imaged dusty clumps surrounding young stars that could be planets in the making.
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Silver Y moths choose to fly when wind blows in the same direction that they migrate, and they may even compensate when the wind pushes them off-course.
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Two days of starvation kicks mice's cells into repair mode and helps them endure high doses of chemotherapy.
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Researchers have recovered microscopic bits of cellulose from 253-million-year-old salt deposits deep underground.
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New evidence suggests that Botox migrates from the injection site, perhaps traveling along nerve cells.
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A fatty compound called ceramide that accumulates in lung cells may be instrumental in the devastating disease cystic fibrosis.
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A team of biologists places comb jellies, not sponges, at the base of a new tree of animal life.
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Diamond can hold quantum information even at room temperature, which makes it a candidate material for future quantum computers.
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Human cells grown in conditions that mimic life inside the body are beginning to replace lab animals for testing drug candidates and industrial chemicals.
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Relatively high concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide weaken soybean defenses against Japanese beetles.
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The kinds of microbes living in an infant's gut may influence weight gain later in childhood.
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The experimental drug tocilizumab quells rheumatoid arthritis in adults and children by inhibiting an inflammatory compound called interleukin-6.
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The Tibetan Plateau formed when the Indian and Eurasian plates collided, but scientists may have had the order of events wrong.
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Water softens squid beaks toward their base, so they don't cut into the squid's own soft tissue.
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Individual-specific DNA deletions and duplications, many located in genes involved in brain development, occur in an unusually large percentage of people with schizophrenia.
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