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- Health & Medicine
Celebrex combats skin cancer in vulnerable group
Anti-inflammatory drug limits number of tumors in patients with hereditary condition
- Space
Parting Eta Carinae’s clouds reveals more clouds
New images show the nearby star system's inner beauty.
- Space
Plenty of black holes do-si-do
Team finds 33 merging galaxies with 'waltzing' black-hole pairs, suggesting the phenomenon is more common than thought.
- Space
Kepler space telescope finds its first extrasolar planets
The NASA mission uncovers one Neptune-like and four Jupiter-like bodies.
- Space
New-found galaxies may be farthest back in time and space yet
Potential finding uses data that push limits of current technology.
- Earth
Age of solar system needs a fresh look
Honed measurements show age overshot by amount significant to earliest stage of formation.
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On the Fringe
Astronomers look to the Kuiper belt for clues to the solar system’s history.
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Evolution’s Bad Girl
Ardi shakes up the fossil record.
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The Ties That Bind
Studies of human social networks go high-tech.
- Life
Cancer plaguing Tasmanian devils began in one animal’s nerve cells
Genetics provide a starting point for diagnosis and potential vaccines.
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Science Past from the issue of January 16, 1960
MEN TO MARS POSSIBLE IN 60’S, EXPERTS SAY — The United States will be able to send three men on a 14-month expedition to Mars in a nuclear-powered two-stage rocket ship during the 1960’s, three space experts assert. The rocket ship would go into orbit around Mars, and the exploring party would use a chemically […]
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Science Future for January 16, 2010
February 4–5 Annual meeting of the American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences occurs in Las Vegas. See aabss.org February 13–17 The American Physical Society and American Association of Physics Teachers meet in Washington, D.C. See www.aps.org March 17 Human origins exhibit premieres at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. See humanorigins.si.edu
