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Gene therapy tool would target free radicals
New method would make the most of the balance between the good and bad of free radicals, offering a potential treatment for cardiovascular diseases.
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Book Review: Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines by Richard A. Muller
Review by Heather Benjamin.
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Book Review: A History of Paleontology Illustration by Jane P. Davidson
Review by Sid Perkins.
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The Primate Family Tree: The Amazing Diversity of Our Closest Relatives by Ian Redmond
Firefly Books, 2008, 176 p., $35.
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Solving Stonehenge: The New Key to an Ancient Enigma by Anthony Johnson
Thames & Hudson, 2008, 288 p., $40.
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Miscarriage, Medicine & Miracles by Bruce K. Young and Amy Zavatto
Bantam Dell Publishing, 2008, 334 p., $25.
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Falcon Fever: A Falconer in the Twenty-first Century by Tim Gallagher
Houghton Mifflin, 2008, 326 p., $25.
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- Earth
Tough meteorite made a big impact
The stony meteorite that landed in a remote portion of Peru in September 2007 was traveling abnormally fast when it struck and blasted a crater that was unusually large for the its size, new analyses indicate.
- Life
X chromosome is extra diverse
Men who father children with multiple women are responsible for “extra” diversity on the X chromosome, a new study of six different populations suggests.
- Life
Safer creation of stem cells
A new technique for converting adult cells to stem cells avoids dangerous mutations in cell DNA
