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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 12th, 2008
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Science News is about to pause briefly before presenting itself to you in a new form, both in print and online.
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Scientists are zeroing in on alligator blood proteins that show promise for fighting disease-causing microbes.
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Inflammatory genes create a signature for bipolar disorder in some people.
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Mumps infected more than 6,500 people in the United States in 2006, the largest outbreak in 20 years.
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After as many as 16 years, nerve cells transplanted into the brains of Parkinson's patients still thrive, but some show signs of acquiring the disease.
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Element 114 should be chemically similar to lead, but controversial experimental data shows it behaves more like a noble gas, potentially subverting the periodic table's structure.
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Contrary to popular belief, species of salamanders, birds, beetles and fish prefer to mate with close kin.
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Biologists dream of the day when they could engineer crops to make fertilizer out of the nitrogen in the air.
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Bats turn out to be overlooked but significant eaters of insects, pests and other arthropods on shade-grown coffee farms and in tropical forests.
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The discovery of a 4,000-year-old gold necklace in Peru suggests that social elites and economic growth appeared in a surprisingly simple society.
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Some conservationists recommend creating marine parks in areas most likely to survive climate change.
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Astronomers say they have solved a puzzle about the most energetic particles that smash into Earth.
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An unusual layer of rock found along Britain's northwestern coast formed from the debris thrown out of a crater when a meteorite struck nearby more than 1 billion years ago.
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