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January 26, 2008
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Currently in Science News for Kids:
Babies Prove Sound Learners
Scientists are gaining new insights into why babies are so good at learning languages.
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20080116/Feature1.asp
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This Week's Featured Articles:
[P***tary Science]
Mercury, As Never Seen Before: MESSENGER visits innermost p***t
The first spacecraft to visit Mercury in 33 years imaged 25 percent of the crater-pocked surface that had never before been seen close-up.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080126/fob1.asp
[Ecology]
Big Foot: Eco-footprints of rich dwarf poor nations' debt
The first global accounting finds rich and middle-income nations stomping heavy footprints on poorer ones.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080126/fob2.asp
[Physics]
Supercool, and Strange: Scientists are finding clues about why water is so utterly weird
Scientists tracking water's highs and lows are finding new clues as to how and why the familiar substance is so odd. Recent research, for example, suggests that water may exist in two distinct liquid phases at ultralow temperatures.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080126/bob9.asp
THIS WEEK'S ONLINE FEATURES:
[MATHTREK]
Benjamin Franklin Plays Sudoku
Founding father entertained himself devising beautiful mathematical puzzles.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080126/mathtrek.asp
[FOOD FOR THOUGHT]
How Plastic We've Become
Uncle Sam has confirmed it: Our bodies carry residues of kitchen plastics.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080126/food.asp
[TIMELINE]
From the January 22, 1938, issue
Lightning striking again and again, estimating the age of the oceans, and dangerous, youthful drivers.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080126/timeline.asp
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Week of January 26, 2008; Vol. 173, No. 4
THIS WEEK'S TABLE OF CONTENTS: http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080126/toc.asp
References and sources for all articles are available online at www.sciencenews.org
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REGISTERED SUBSCRIBERS to the print edition of Science News also have online access to the full text of the following articles:
[Biology]
Do-It-Yourself DNA: Scientists assemble first synthetic genome
Assembly of the first human-made microbial genome could pave the way for making microbes with synthetic DNA.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080126/fob3.asp
[Physics]
Scanner Darkly: Tiny venetian blinds enhance radiography
Microscopic gratings that select scattered X rays might improve luggage screening and cancer detection.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080126/fob4.asp
[Behavior]
Sickness and Schizophrenia: Psychotic ills tied to previous infections
Two new studies provide evidence for the longstanding suspicion that certain viral infections early in life promote the development of schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080126/fob5.asp
[Zoology]
Bad berries
A parasitic worm transforms ants into walking tropical berries.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080126/fob6.asp
[Biomedicine]
Bariatric Reversal: Stomach surgery curbs some patients' diabetes
Weight-loss stomach surgery in obese people with type 2 diabetes sends the disease into remission in some patients.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080126/fob7.asp
[Materials Science]
Life in Print: Cell by cell, ink-jet printing builds living tissues
Tissues printed with an ink-jet could provide patches for damaged organs, new cell-based materials for drug testing, new ways to probe cellular communication, living sensors, or even fuel cell-type batteries.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080126/bob8.asp
[Zoology]
Fenced-off trees drop their friends
Protecting acacia trees from large, tree-munching animals sets off a chain of events that ends up ruining the trees' partnership with their bodyguard ants.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080126/note10.asp
[Paleontology]
Life explodes twice
The Ediacaran fauna were as varied as all animals in existence today and, more impressively, as in the Cambrian, report paleontologists.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080126/note11.asp
[Behavior]
Antidepressants get overly positive spin
Studies finding beneficial effects of antidepressant drugs for depressed patients get published far more often than do studies that uncover no antidepressant benefits.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080126/note12.asp
[Behavior]
9/11 attacks stoked U.S. heart ailments
People who experienced serious stress reactions shortly after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks also displayed markedly elevated rates of new heart and blood vessel ailments over the next 3 years.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080126/note13.asp
[Astronomy]
Case of the misshapen disk
A deformed disk around a young star may have gotten its swept-back appearance as the result of a collision with a dense gas cloud.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080126/note14.asp
[Astronomy]
Gravity at play: A double lens
Astronomers have discovered an extraordinarily rare double cosmic mirage.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080126/note15.asp
[Astronomy]
Four's a crowd
Astronomers have found a quartet of stars packed into a region smaller than Jupiter's orbit around the sun.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080126/note16.asp
[Science & Society]
Letters from the January 26, 2008, issue of Science News
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080126/letter17.asp
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