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In the December 5 Issue:
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- Climate might be right for a deal: Copenhagen negotiations will take steps toward a climate-stabilizing treaty
- Botanical Whales: Adventures in the Tortugas reveal that seagrass fields need saving too
- Breaking the Speed Limit: Studies examine physiology and technology to better foresee the ultimate edge of human performance
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The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva is online again and has set its first energy record. Full story. Above is an archive photo of the collider's ATLAS detector. Image: CERN
- World's biggest atom smasher sets first record After a year’s delay, the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, became the world’s highest energy particle accelerator on November 30, revving up each of its twin proton beams to energies of 1.18 trillion electron volts. Read the full story. | Nov 30th 2009 Found in: Atom & Cosmos
- Discerning pancreatic cancer from pancreatitis New test shows patients with autoimmune pancreatitis are more likely to have a telltale antibody. Read the full story. | Nov 29th 2009 Found in: Body & Brain
- Bone regulators moonlight in the brain as fever inducers Study in mice suggests proteins could be source of post-menopausal hot flashes. Read the full story. | Nov 25th 2009 Found in: Body & Brain and Genes & Cells
- GPS bolsters view that big Cascadia quakes could hit inland Satellite tracking of plate movements shows that a magnitude-9 tremor in Pacific Northwest could strike close to urban areas. Read the full story. | Nov 24th 2009 Found in: Earth and Earth Science
- First programmable quantum computer created System uses ultracold beryllium ions to tackle 160 randomly chosen programs. Read the full story. | Nov 23rd 2009 Found in: Computers and Matter & Energy
- Case of the toxic gingerbread man Featured blog: A search for the source of some indoor-air anomalies turns up a surprising culprit. Read the full story. | Nov 21st 2009 Found in: Chemistry, Environment, Molecules and Science & Society
- Malaria shows signs of resisting best drug used to fight it The frontline malaria medicine artemisinin shows gaps in effectiveness in Southeast Asia. Read the full story. | Nov 19th 2009 Found in: Body & Brain
- Classic view of leaf-cutter ants overlooked nitrogen-fixing partner A fresh look at a fungus-insect partnership that biologists have studied for more than a century uncovers a role for bacteria. Read the full story. | Nov 19th 2009 Found in: Ecology, Life and Zoology
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Major eruption cooled the climate but went unnoticed
11.30.09 - Ice-core records suggest that a major 1809 eruption cooled Earth even before the Tambora eruption and 'the year without a summer' Found in: Earth, Earth Science and Planetary Science
- Little push turns snail lefties to righties
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A timely touch transforms speech perception
11.25.09 - Air puffs on the hand or neck influence people’s ability to hear certain spoken sounds. Found in: Humans and Psychology
- Fecal architecture is beetle armor
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How to mix oil and water
11.24.09 - Bouncing an oil-coated water droplet creates tiny emulsion Found in: Physics
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Nation by nation, evidence thin that boosting crop yields conserves land
11.23.09 - Goals to intensify agriculture may not necessarily return farmland to nature, new survey of UN data finds Found in: Agriculture, Ecology, Environment, Life and Science & Society
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Metal gives pigment the blues
11.23.09 - Researchers studying manganese oxides unexpectedly discover a new way to achieve blue hue Found in: Chemistry
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Low-tech approach stifles high-risk Nipah virus
11.21.09 - Shielding palm-tree sap from fruit bats may limit spread of deadly disease
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Visual illusion stumps adults but not kids
11.20.09 - Finding suggests that sensitivity to visual context develops slowly Found in: Humans and Psychology
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Where humans go, pepper virus follows
11.20.09 - Plant pathogen could help track waters polluted with human waste Found in: Environment, Life and Science & Society
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Deep hole spotted on moon
11.20.09 - Feature may be ‘skylight’ in an underground lava tube Found in: Earth and Planetary Science
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Corn genome a maze of unusual diversity
11.19.09 - Multiple teams announce complete draft of the maize genome, with a full plate of surprises Found in: Genes & Cells and Life
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Obese people can misjudge body size
11.19.09 - Survey finds that many overweight individuals consider their body size normal and healthy Found in: Body & Brain and Humans
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Climate not really what doomed large North American mammals
11.19.09 - Prevalence of a dung fungus over time suggests megafauna extinctions at end of last ice age started before vegetation changed Found in: Life
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