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In the February 25 Issue:
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Discovery of a distinctive channel and new calculations of possible water movement suggest a fast and furious flow formed the sea. (p. 5)
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Events in underground experiment too few for certainty, but match the signature of WIMPs. (p. 8)
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Observations of a ‘homeless’ quasar suggest new ideas for galaxy formation. (p. 8)
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Scientists have made batteries and supercapacitors with little more than ordinary office paper and some carbon and silver nanomaterials. (p. 9)
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New chemical reaction cleaves dinitrogen molecule and brings carbon and nitrogen together. (p. 9)
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A new study yields controversial evidence of mass cannibalism in central Europe 7,000 years ago. (p. 10)
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DNA clues suggest little inbreeding, surprise on the bamboo diet. (p. 11)
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Computer screening mines inventory of existing drugs to find possible new drugs that the H1N1 and H5N1 flu viruses just wouldn’t be able to resist. (p. 11)
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German birds that spend the off-season at U.K. birdfeeders now look slightly different from neighbors that migrate to Spain (p. 12)
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Researchers have captured the bacterium Shewanella’s behavior on film, and the microbes didn’t behave as expected (p. 12)
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A theoretical perfect cloaking device could be foiled using charged particles, a new study suggests. (p. 13)
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Dust particles,wind and aerodynamics could steer some snowflakes toward a three-sided fate (p. 13)
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A new study suggests that commonly used antidepressants may work after first altering personality traits. (p. 14)
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Blocking a small molecule, a new drug reduces levels of the virus, chimp study shows. (p. 14)
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