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Science & Society: News of the year, 2008

Science News writers and editors looked back at the past year's stories and selected a handful as the year's most interesting and important in the interface of Science & Society. Follow hotlinks to the full, original stories.

Humans

Humans: Science news of the year, 2008

Science News writers and editors looked back at the past year's stories and selected a handful as the year's most interesting and important in Humans. Follow hotlinks to the full, original stories.

Space

Atom & Cosmos: Science news of the year, 2008

Science News writers and editors looked back at the past year's stories and selected a handful as the year's most interesting and important in Atom & Cosmos. Follow hotlinks to the full, original stories.

Humans

Taking trophy heads close to home

Members of the prehistoric Nasca culture in southern Peru took trophy heads from their own people rather than from foreigners captured in wars or raids, a new biochemical analysis suggests.

Earth

Corals, turfgrass and sediments offer stories of climate past and future

Science News reports from San Francisco at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union

Health & Medicine

For preemies, less is more

Multiple courses of steroid treatment for mom could harm premature babies.

Health & Medicine

EPA should test demasculinizing pollutants collectively, NRC says

Cumulative effects of phthalates and related compounds likely larger than effects measured one chemical at a time, reports a National Research Council panel.

Life

Dinosaur day care dads

A new study shows some male dinosaurs may have been the primary caretakers of their young.

Humans

Primates get a neural facial

New brain-imaging studies indicate that similar brain areas coordinate face recognition in people, chimpanzees and macaque monkeys, suggesting that a face-sensitive brain system evolved early in primate evolution.

Health & Medicine

Bacteria help themselves in damaged lungs

An antibiotic produced by a bacterium acts as a molecular snorkel to help with breathing. The bacterium infects and kills many people with cystic fibrosis, and plugging the snorkel could lead to treatments.

Health & Medicine

Enzyme inventory affects ovarian cancer outlook

Levels of two enzymes crucial for shutting down genes might clarify the prognosis for ovarian cancer patients, a new study finds.

Tech

Hot new memory

A study of the physics of phonons, quantum packets of heat, suggests that controlling the flow of heat could be another way to store digital information.