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- Life
Bat-killing fungus is a European import
Tracing the origins of the strain that causes white-nose syndrome in U.S. animals to Europe, scientists show that infection ups arousal rate during hibernation, depleting energy stores.
- Earth
Stop-and-go plate tectonics
Early on, ancient crustal plates may have dived deep into the Earth, time and again, giving a halting start to the planetary remodeling process.
- Health & Medicine
Autism linked to obesity in pregnancy
Association may spark research into a possible biological mechanism.
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- Space
Planets’ gravity tidies stellar ring
The vast dust disk around the star Fomalhaut hints at a pair of orbiting bodies.
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Highlights from the Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting, San Francisco
Estrogen mimics may delay puberty and honeybees hurting from pesticides.
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BOOK REVIEW: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Review by Janet Raloff.
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Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth by Chris Stringer
A paleoanthropologist argues that multiple early human groups arose and competed in Africa. Times Books, 2012, 320 p., $28
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The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care by Eric Topol
A look at new technologies such as genome sequencing and organ growth suggests that digital advances could usher in a new age of personalized medicine. Basic Books, 2012, 304 p., $27.99
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The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
A journalist explores research on how habits are formed in the brain, how to create new ones and what it takes to break them. Random House, 2012, 371 p., $28
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Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality by Elias Aboujaoude
A psychiatrist examines online alter egos and how they can affect life offline, sometimes for the worse. W.W. Norton, 2011, 349 p., $17.95
