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Potent Promise: Essential Stemness: Scientists move closer to understanding the dual fates of embryonic stem cells — to divide or develop
Potent Promise: Back to the Womb: Reverting adult cells to an embryonic state without creating embryos is a tricky business
It’s Likely That Times Are Changing: A century ago, mathematician Hermann Minkowski famously merged space with time, establishing a new foundation for physics;  today physicists are rethinking how the two should fit together
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Comment: Preserving digital data for the future of eScience

From the August 30, 2008 issue of Science News
Found in: Astronomy, Computers, Science & Society and Technology
Science & the Public: TV Take-Backs

Here's one solution for all of the conventional TVs that will be cast off during the imminent digital-TV transition.
Found in: Environment, Science & Society and Technology
Solar panels to dye for

Scientists show that cheap chemical dyes may one day help with the efficient capture of the sun's energy
Found in: Materials Science, Matter & Energy, Molecules and Technology
Science & the Public: Cars Are Learning to Drive

Hands-free driving, truth be told, sounds very appealing.
Found in: Science & Society and Technology
Science & the Public: Son of Furby

How Star Wars' robots catalyzed an MIT program to build companionable robots.
Found in: Science & Society and Technology
Science & the Public: Kavli Awardees Named

Norwegian Academy awards three novel and hefty prizes to three teams of scientists.
Found in: Astronomy, Body & Brain, Chemistry, Matter & Energy, Molecules, Science & Society and Technology
I, computer

Bacteria that can "flip pancakes" with their DNA are the first microbes engineered to be living computers.
Found in: Biomedicine, Molecules and Technology
Catching the cell in action

A light microscope with high resolution may enable scientists to view the 3-D structures within living cells.
Found in: Biology, Genes & Cells, Physics and Technology
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Science & the Public By Janet Raloff Sep 4th 2008

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Math Trek By Julie Rehmeyer
Henri Cartan, one of the leaders of a revolution in mathematics, dies at 104 Aug 29th 2008

Comment By Guest Columnists
From the September 13, 2008 issue of Science News Aug 29th 2008

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Central Park in the Dark: More Mysteries of Urban Wildlife
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