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  1. Earth

    Warmer oceans would fuel more thunderstorms

    Satellite data reveal more thunderheads forming as tropical sea-surface temperatures rise.

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  2. Book Review: The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces by Frank Wilczek

    Book Review: The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces by Frank Wilczek

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  3. Book Review: Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War by Jeffrey A. Lockwood

    Book Review: Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War by Jeffrey A. Lockwood

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  4. Cranes: A Natural History of a Bird in Crisis by Janice M. Hughes

    Cranes: A Natural History of a Bird in Crisis by Janice M. Hughes

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  5. Dyslexia, Learning, and the Brain by Roderick I. Nicolson and Angela J. Fawcett

    Dyslexia, Learning, and the Brain by Roderick I. Nicolson and Angela J. Fawcett

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  6. Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America by Stephen Trimble

    Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America by Stephen Trimble

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  7. The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine by Charles Petzold

    The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine by Charles Petzold

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  8. Nobel: A Century of Prize Winners by Michael Worek, ed.

    Nobel: A Century of Prize Winners by Michael Worek, ed.

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  9. Letters

    A better way The article “Thinning fuel before injection boosts efficiency” (SN: 10/25/08, p. 9) shows that there are many ways to find efficiency when we look. One place I see for improvement is moisture injection in the feed airstream to gasoline engines. Here in the Southwest, where humidity runs at 20 percent, rainy days […]

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  10. Earth

    Obama administration should lead energy transition

    R.K. Pachauri, an engineer and economist by training, is director-general of The Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi, India, and a corecipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his role as chief of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The IPCC periodically issues consensus reports on the science of climate change. Senior editor Janet Raloff spoke with him about changes he hopes to see from the Obama administration.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain: Science news of the year, 2008

    Science News writers and editors looked back at the past year's stories and selected a handful as the year's most interesting and important in Body & Brain. Follow hotlinks to the full, original stories.

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  12. Science & Society

    2008: Science news of the year

    Science News editors and writers survey the top news from the world of science in 2008. The selected stories are featured in this year-end issue, with links to the original, longer stories.

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