The biological riches of the oceans will be spent within decades if current trends continue. (p. 291)

A trillion miniature spacecraft could provide a giant sunshade for Earth, significantly reducing global warming. (p. 291)

Stroke survivors who have difficulty using an arm or a hand experience lasting mobility gains after completing an unusual 2-week rehabilitation program. (p. 292)

According to preliminary results from a study at a physics lab, a new basketball for professional players bounces less elastically, veers more when it bounces, and becomes more slippery when damp than does a leather ball. (p. 292)

A constituent of red wine appears to increase the life spans and boost the well-being of mice that haven't followed the healthiest of lifestyles. (p. 293)

The forerunner of the mighty Amazon ran from east to west, a new analysis of rocks laid down by that ancient river suggests. (p. 293)

NASA this week gave the go-ahead for a shuttle crew to refurbish the Hubble Space Telescope and to install new detectors that would vastly improve its capabilities. (p. 294)

Babies who die of sudden infant death syndrome show abnormalities in the regulation of the chemical serotonin in their brains. (p. 294)

By studying mice that have been engineered to carry mutations in certain tumor-suppressing genes, researchers have identified a link between cancer and aging. (p. 296)

In the midst of rapid change in voting technology, researchers are finding causes for concern as well as inventing new equipment and schemes to improve the accuracy and integrity of elections. (p. 298)

Physicists have for the first time transmitted quantum states between atoms and light. (p. 301)

Chemists report the first synthesis of a promising antibiotic that other researchers recently discovered in nature. (p. 301)

Jupiter's Little Red Spot has become as strong as its big brother. (p. 301)

A Hubble Space Telescope image reveals a large galaxy in the early universe assembling from the merger of smaller ones. (p. 301)

The addictive ingredient in those cigarettes in the schoolyard could prep the brain for reliance on illicit drugs. (p. 302)

Estrogen fluctuations during a woman's menstrual cycle may change her perception of pain. (p. 302)

Staying on top of diabetes treatments may prevent some of the brain atrophy and cognitive deficits that typically accompany the disease. (p. 302)

Rats born to mothers who drank caffeinated beverages throughout their pregnancies had abnormal brain-cell function. (p. 302)

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