Science News / Science Future For August 16, 2008

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Sequencing the dead to save the living: Reviving ancient genomes of long-extinct creatures offers a window into past extinctions—and may help prevent future die outs
No gene is an island: Even as biologists catalog the discrete parts of life forms, an emerging picture reveals that life’s functions arise from interconnectedness
The decider: Informing the debate over the reality of ‘free will’ requires learning something about the lateral habenula
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Science Future for August 16, 2008

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September 10–13
First International Ragweed Conference in Budapest. Visit www.nki.hu/ragweed

September 15
An Evening with Frank Wilczek: The Lightness of Being. Reception and book signing by the physics Nobel laureate at the New York Academy of Sciences. Visit www.nyas.org/events

October 4
Great Insect Fair at Pennsylvania State University. Visit www.ento.psu.edu/scied/fair.html

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