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April 12, 2008
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Blooming Jellies
Jellyfish and other gooey marine creatures are showing up in new places, and scientists are trying to discover why.
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20080409/Feature1.asp
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This Week's Featured Articles:
[Science & Society]
Letter from the Publisher: The Curtain Goes Up--on the New Science News
Science News is about to pause briefly before presenting itself to you in a new form, both in print and online.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080412/fob1.asp
[Zoology]
Antibiotic Alligator: Promising proteins lurk in reptile blood
Scientists are zeroing in on alligator blood proteins that show promise for fighting disease-causing microbes.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080412/fob2.asp
[Chemistry]
Einstein's Invisible Hand: Is relativity making metal act like a noble gas?
Element 114 should be chemically similar to lead, but controversial experimental data shows it behaves more like a noble gas, potentially subverting the periodic table's structure.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080412/fob6.asp
[Zoology]
Web Extra: First Frog without Lungs
An aquatic frog in fast-flowing water in Borneo turns out to be the first frog species with no lungs.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080412/fob7.asp
[Biology]
All in the Family: For some animals, the ideal mate is a brother, sister or cousin
Contrary to popular belief, species of salamanders, birds, beetles and fish prefer to mate with close kin.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080412/bob8.asp
THIS WEEK'S ONLINE FEATURES:
[MATHTREK]
The Noisy Game of Baseball
Predicting a baseball player's future batting average (and many other things) is not as simple as relying on past performance, mathematicians say.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080412/mathtrek.asp
[FOOD FOR THOUGHT]
The Costs of Meat and Fish
The animal protein in our diets can have a high environmental cost.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080412/food.asp
[TIMELINE]
From the April 9, 1938, issue
Mining limestone to make steel, a bright little bulb, setting a new record on the sun and finding ancient buried thermos bottles.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080412/timeline.asp
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Week of April 12, 2008; Vol. 173, No. 15
THIS WEEK'S TABLE OF CONTENTS: http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080412/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:
[Biomedicine]
Body and Brain: Possible link between inflammation and bipolar disorder
Inflammatory genes create a signature for bipolar disorder in some people.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080412/fob3.asp
[Biomedicine]
Virus Reprise: Mumps outbreak in 2006 was largest in 20 years
Mumps infected more than 6,500 people in the United States in 2006, the largest outbreak in 20 years.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080412/fob4.asp
[Biomedicine]
Stem Cell Snag: Implanted cells may show signs of Parkinson's
After as many as 16 years, nerve cells transplanted into the brains of Parkinson's patients still thrive, but some show signs of acquiring the disease.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080412/fob5.asp
[Biology]
Out of Thin Air: Scientists pursue nitrogen fixers with an aim to harness their secrets--and feed the world
Biologists dream of the day when they could engineer crops to make fertilizer out of the nitrogen in the air.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080412/bob9.asp
[Zoology]
Robin stole credit for Batman's deeds
Bats turn out to be overlooked but significant eaters of insects, pests and other arthropods on shade-grown coffee farms and in tropical forests.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080412/note10.asp
[Archaeology]
Peruvian site yields a golden discovery
The discovery of a 4,000-year-old gold necklace in Peru suggests that social elites and economic growth appeared in a surprisingly simple society.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080412/note11.asp
[Environment]
Refuge for the resilient
Some conservationists recommend creating marine parks in areas most likely to survive climate change.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080412/note12.asp
[Astronomy]
Solving a cosmic ray conundrum
Astronomers say they have solved a puzzle about the most energetic particles that smash into Earth.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080412/note13.asp
[Earth Science]
Britain's biggest meteorite strike
An unusual layer of rock found along Britain's northwestern coast formed from the debris thrown out of a crater when a meteorite struck nearby more than 1 billion years ago.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080412/note14.asp
[Science & Society]
Letters from the April 12, 2008, issue of Science News
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080412/letter15.asp
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