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- Space
Surprising signal
Potential contaminant found on Red Planet does not rule out its prospect for habitability.
- Life
Eat less, weigh more
Separate neurons in the nematode brain control eating and fat-building. The discovery may help explain some mysteries of obesity.
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- Life
Time to chill
Well-preserved fossils deposited in an Antarctic lake about 14 million years ago pin down when a large part of the now-icy continent most recently dipped below freezing.
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Primeval Kinship: How Pair-Bonding Gave Birth to Human Society
by Bernard Chapais, Harvard Univ. Press, 2008, 349 p., $39.95.
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The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It
by Jonathan Zittrain, Yale Univ. Press, 2008, 342 p., $30.
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One Minute Mysteries: 65 Short Mysteries You Solve With Science!
Eric Yoder and Natalie Yoder, Science, Naturally!, 2008, 176 p., $9.95.
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Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910
by Stephen J. Pyne, Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2008, 325 p., $16.
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The Encyclopedia of Earth: A Complete Visual Guide
by Michael Allaby, Robert Coenraads, Stephen Hutchinson, Karen McGhee and John O’Byrne, Univ. of California Press, 2008, 608 p., $39.95.
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- Astronomy
The Universe in a Mirror
The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It.
