A fraction of the standard dose of flu vaccine appears to grant people immunity to influenza if injected into the skin rather than in the muscle of the upper arm. (p. 307)

New evidence suggests that parasitic plants can transfer their own genes into host plants. (p. 307)

Physicists have proposed an explanation for how even slight wetness can cut road-to-rubber friction. (p. 308)

Fossils unearthed at a German quarry hint that members of one species of dinosaur that lived in the region about 152 million years ago evolved to be abnormally small because of the constraints of its island ecosystem. (p. 308)

Peeking into the dusty core of a dark cloud seemingly devoid of stars, astronomers have found a faintly glowing body that could be the earliest glimmerings ever recorded from a newborn star. (p. 309)

Some Gulf coast fish exposed to low oxygen are experiencing reproductive problems, and lab studies suggest that a particular protein that silences or reduces sex hormones may be to blame. (p. 309)

In separate studies, scientists linked distinctive, collective electrical discharges of brain cells to certain schizophrenia symptoms as well to integrated mental states attained by Buddhist meditators. (p. 310)

A shift in scientific thinking about what causes autism is prompting a closer look at potential environmental factors. (p. 311)

A U.S. gene bank has begun deep-freezing semen and other livestock 'seed' for possible future use in research or breeding. (p. 314)

During the transfer of a quantum data bit from matter to light, a cloud of extremely cold atoms emitted a photon carrying a version of the cloud's quantum state. (p. 316)

Two puzzles have emerged from the Cassini spacecraft's first close flyby of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. (p. 316)

Exposure to traffic can dramatically increase a person's risk of having a heart attack soon afterward. (p. 316)

Researchers have linked a mom's exposure to phthalates with a genital marker in boys suggesting a subtle feminization of their reproductive organs. (p. 318)

Animal experiments indicate that waterborne uranium can mimic the activity of estrogen, a female sex hormone. (p. 318)

A study of Chinese women finds that the pesticide DDT can not only affect menstrual cycles but also foster miscarriages very early in pregnancy. (p. 318)

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