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Life

Penguin declines may come down to krill

Lack of food appears to be hurting birds on the Antarctic Peninsula.

Science & Society

Humans

Western views of fat adopted around the world, a link between a messy environment and stereotypes, and more in this week's news

Chemistry

Molecules/Matter & Energy

3-D effects without the glasses, plus portable X-rays and linking qubits in this week’s news.

Tech

Fishy fat from soy is headed for U.S. dinner tables

Most people have heard about omega-3 fatty acids, the primary constituents of fish oil. Stearidonic acid, one of those omega-3s, is hardly a household term. But it should become one, researchers argued this week at the 2011 Experimental Biology meeting.

Health & Medicine

American Association for Cancer Research

Anticancer power of strawberries, human papillomavirus linked to lung cancer and more news from the recent cancer research meeting.

Earth

Earth/Environment

Forecasting volcanic eruptions, plus saving mangroves and long-distance pollution in this week’s news.

Physics

Screwy symmetry revealed

Math trick that reverses spirals and other shapes that twist and turn should provide new ways to understand and design materials.

Math

Cells take on traveling salesman problem

With neither minds nor maps- chemical-sensing immune players do well with decades-old mathematical problem, a computer simulation reveals.

Humans

Federal shutdown would muzzle federal science

Even a brief shutdown would have on the dissemination of data. Scientific data, for instance. Such as new findings from research studies with public health implications.

Health & Medicine

Body & Brain

Food tastes less fatty to overweight people, plus an itch protein and thirsty rats in this week’s news.