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  1. Health & Medicine

    Earlier HIV treatment can save more lives

    Moving up the starting point for HIV treatment leads to improved survival rates.

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  2. Astronomy

    Double the rubble: Nearby star system has two asteroid belts

    Epsilon Eridani hosts an inner asteroid belt and planet arranged like those in the solar system.

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  3. Space

    Hubble back in action (for now)

    A main camera of the Hubble Space Telescope is back online.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Stopping rotavirus before it hits

    A vaccine against rotavirus shows potent protection against the diarrhea-causing pathogen in its first year of widespread use.

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  5. Math

    A frustrating view of complexity

    The unifying theme of complex systems, a researcher argues, is frustration.

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  6. Book Review: Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children by Philip Shabecoff and Alice Shabecoff

    Review by Dina Fine Maron.

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  7. Physics

    Book Review: Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking by Charles Seife

    Review by Davide Castelvecchi.

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  8. Physics

    Facts and Speculations in Cosmology by Jayant V. Narlikar and Geoffrey Burbidge

    Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008, 287 p., $60.

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  9. Tech

    Neuroengineering the Future: Virtual Minds and the Creation of Immortality by Bruce F. Katz

    Infinity Science Press, 2008, 389 p., $49.95.

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  10. Plants

    Don’t Touch That: The Book of Gross, Poisonous, and Downright Icky Plants and Critters by Jeff Day

    Chicago Review Press, 2008, 108 p., $9.95.

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  11. Tech

    Magnetic Appeal: MRI and the Myth of Transparency by Kelly A. Joyce

    Cornell Univ. Press, 2008, 198 p., $21.95.

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  12. Tech

    Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years by Vaclav Smil

    MIT Press, 2008, 307 p., $29.95.

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