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- Mystery Meteorite: The case for (and against) a rock from Mercury
- Hard Times for Theorists in a Post-Higgs World: The Large Hadron Collider’s big success leaves no clear avenue for new physics
- In the Eye of the Tiger: Global spread of Asian tiger mosquito could fuel outbreaks of tropical disease in temperate regions
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- Cool Jobs: Moved by life: Biologically inspired robots travel — naturally
- Infection time: Disease is more severe when it hits in the morning, at least in mice
- Explainer: Our bodies’ internal clocks: Biological clocks determine hunger, sleepiness and other daily rhythms
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Munched by a manipulated microbe, ocean algae readily yield ethanol.
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- Epidemiologists find that social media can be used to track disease outbreaks as they happen, even in countries with little infrastructure.
- As of January 1, people who classify new plant, algae and fungus species can do it in English and online.
- A computer technique can foresee adverse events before medications are widely prescribed.
- Analysis of stock trading data suggests an effort to manipulate the market in 2007.
- Decisions more democratic when individuals with no preset preference join a group.
- Tourists and cosmetics seem to be threatening da Vinci’s masterpiece.
- Network analysis confirms deviations from the recipe are quite feasible.
- Neuroscientists consider defense applications of recent insights into how the brain works.
- Some estimates of the social networking site's worth appear to make impossible assumptions.
- Top winners selected from 30 finalists who traveled to Washington, D.C., to compete in the inaugural Broadcom MASTERS program for middle school students.
- The first class of 30 finalists in the Broadcom MASTERS will convene in Washington, D.C., this fall to compete in new national science competition geared to younger students.
- Mining patient records, combined with molecular research, may reveal new links among medical conditions.
- Weather extremes associated with this climate phenomenon appear to double the risk that conflict will erupt in any given year.
- Supply officers draw as much or more emotional fire as combat soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- Analysis suggests a small number of firms control a big share of global wealth.
- Most effects of overharvesting reversed within a decade.
- Power networks in Congress, Twitter’s crystal ball and iPhone contagion in news from an MIT workshop on information in social media.
- An analysis of Enron e-mails reveals that corrupt networks have a distinctive shape.
- Chemical reactions caused by the sun's rays worsen air pollution from idling jets at airports.
- Widely used to snare serial criminals, a forensic method finds application in epidemiology.
- Young scientists receive awards for insights applicable to cancer treatment, homeland security, water supplies and more.
- Certain systems, including social hubs like Facebook, can be directed from relatively few control points.
- GoQBot curls itself up and takes off spinning.
- A high-tech analysis uncovers a 19th century painter’s do-over.
- Poor air quality is an added danger for troops, testing indicates.
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