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In the December 5 Issue:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Climate might be right for a deal: Copenhagen negotiations will take steps toward a climate-stabilizing treaty
- Botanical Whales: Adventures in the Tortugas reveal that seagrass fields need saving too
- Breaking the Speed Limit: Studies examine physiology and technology to better foresee the ultimate edge of human performance
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An experimental alternative to standard mammography could, by the end of this decade, become an essential tool for spotting breast cancer. (p. 371)
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Children born deaf who receive cochlear implants as toddlers show brain activity that's more normal than that of children getting the implants later in childhood. (p. 371)
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Researchers have unveiled a three-dimensional building component that can be created from DNA in a simple procedure. (p. 372)
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A Mars-orbiting spacecraft has provided new details about when and where liquid water existed on the planet. (p. 372)
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Brain cells implicated in the ability to imitate and empathize with others largely fail to function in children with autism, a new brain-imaging investigation suggests. (p. 373)
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Insects can travel as larval stowaways in the guts of migrating birds. (p. 373)
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Scientists have published the genome of a boxer, a detailed comparison of the dog's genome with the genomes of mice and people, and a study of genetic variation among dog breeds. (p. 374)
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A linguist has sparked controversy with his proposal that a tribe of about 200 people living in Brazil's Amazon rain forest speaks a language devoid of counting and color terms, clauses, and other elements of grammar often considered to be universal. (p. 376)
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Some researchers are breaking genomes into a collection of parts and precisely reassembling them to do a scientist's bidding. (p. 378)
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The survival of certain mountain-dwelling amphibians may be threatened by toxic pesticides that are blown uphill from distant agricultural lands in California's Central Valley. (p. 381)
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Male cod in the open ocean are producing an egg-yolk protein ordinarily made only by females, signaling their potential exposure to estrogen-mimicking pollutants. (p. 381)
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Stuffed toys can accumulate high concentrations of potentially toxic air pollutants. (p. 381)
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Sediment-dwelling fish off Seattle's waterfront exhibit spawning abnormalities that may compromise their ability to reproduce successfully. (p. 381)
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A Japanese research team has made an environmentally friendly biodiesel catalyst from charred sugars. (p. 382)
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An experimental malaria vaccine has been shown to induce a strong immune response in people. (p. 382)
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In late October, a day after Mars and Earth were at their closest approach until 2018, the Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a large dust storm on the Red Planet. (p. 382)
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Gerald Tape, who served on the Science Service Board of Trustees for more than 30 years, died Nov. 20. (p. 383)
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