Myth often cited by global warming skeptics debunked. (p. 5)

A black hole can consume anything in its path. These monsters can become huge — but perhaps only so huge. (p. 18)

Long thought the province of the abstract, cognition may actually evolve as physical experiences and actions ignite mental life (p. 24)

A new technique for converting adult cells to stem cells avoids dangerous mutations in cell DNA (p. 8)

Men who father children with multiple women are responsible for “extra” diversity on the X chromosome, a new study of six different populations suggests. (p. 8)

Manipulating the quantum properties of diamond impurities makes diamond into a kind of microscope that could, for example, reveal the inner working of cells. (p. 9)

A new device uses an electric field to increase cars’ gas mileage. (p. 9)

Three Europeans recognized for linking viruses to AIDS, cervical cancer. (p. 10)

Understanding of broken symmetry has been crucial to the standard model of particle physics. (p. 10)

One researcher is awarded for discovering the protein that helps jellyfish glow and two for making the protein into a crucial tool for biologists. (p. 10)

Scientists discover "dark flow" -- the unexplained streaming of galactic clusters across the universe. (p. 12)

The current solar minimum is the lowest — and one of the longest — recorded in the past 50 years, since modern measurements began. (p. 13)

As mission nears end, Phoenix Mars Lander finds strong evidence for minerals similar to those formed on Earth by liquid water. (p. 13)

A difference in vision in cichlids in Lake Victoria could be pushing a species to split into two. (p. 14)

Scientists have uncovered a new dinosaur that breathed like a bird. (p. 14)

A handful of ants remain outside to close the colony door at sunset and sacrifice their lives in the act. (p. 15)

Mediterranean and western Atlantic bluefin tuna spend more time in mixed groups than previously thought, suggesting management strategies need to be revisited. (p. 15)

The activity of genes in men's brains begins to change sooner than it does in women's brains, a new study shows. (p. 16)

Use of clot-busting drugs as long as 4½ hours after an event pays dividends later. (p. 16)

Caloric restriction, an antiaging technique, fails to lower levels of IGF-1, a growth factor that, in high amounts, is linked to cancer in humans. But cutting protein along with calories does decrease IGF-1. (p. 17)

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