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We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.

  1. Health & Medicine

    Nabbing suspicious SNPs

    Scientists search the whole genome for clues to common diseases.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Thanks for the future memories

    To the brain, remembering the past and visualizing the future look surprisingly similar.

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  3. Math

    Gender equality closes math gap

    Research shows that the greater the gender equality in a country, the more equal the math scores between boys and girls.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    BOOK REVIEW | Mortal Coil: A Short History of Living Longer

    Review by Nathan Seppa.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    BOOK LIST | Science Lessons: What the Business of Biotech Taught Me about Management

    The former CEO of Amgen narrates the company’s rise from start-up to biotech giant. Harvard Business School Press, 2008, 288 p., $29.95 SCIENCE LESSONS: WHAT THE BUSINESS OF BIOTECH TAUGHT ME ABOUT MANAGEMENT

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  6. Humans

    BOOK LIST | Up River: Man-Made Sites of Interest on the Hudson from the Battery to Troy

    Take a tour through aerial photographs of the Hudson’s shore, starting at the tip of Manhattan. UP RIVER: MAN-MADE SITES OF INTEREST ON THE HUDSON FROM THE BATTERY TO TROY Blast Books, 2008, 174 p., $19.95.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    BOOK LIST | On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine

    The rise, fall and resurgence of the original “anti-depressants.” ON SPEED: THE MANY LIVES OF AMPHETAMINE New York Univ. Press, 2008, 352 p., $29.95 (cloth).

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Tame-walk potion

    A one-two sting and a cockroach lets a wasp lead it like a dog on a leash.

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  9. Earth

    TNT buster

    A bacterium from Yellowstone could help break down TNT.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Brain trauma

    Cooling the body temperature of a child who has severe brain injury doesn’t seem to help recovery, but the jury is still out.

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  11. Agriculture

    Federal Research Censorship

    The media-affairs office in federal agencies can be fairly obstructionist, and when they do, the public comes out the loser.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Bad synergy

    Hookworm and other parasite infections work in concert to heighten risk of anemia in children. The problem may be especially bad for school-aged children, whose learning ability is often compromised by anemia.

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