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  1. Humans

    Infants have social sightlines

    One-year olds can translate personal experience into knowledge about others

    By Bruce Bower
  2. Space

    Milky Way’s black hole seen in new detail

    New radio wave observations are giving astronomers their closest look yet at the supermassive black hole believed to be lurking at the center of our galaxy.

    By Ron Cowen
  3. Earth

    Mighty hurricanes get mightier

    Peak winds in North Atlantic hurricanes and similar storms elsewhere in the world have gained speed during the past three decades, thanks to a warming trend in many of the ocean basins where such storms are spawned.

    By Sid Perkins
  4. Health & Medicine

    Calcium clue

    Excess calcium in the blood might signal an increased risk of fatal prostate cancer, a new study finds.

    By Nathan Seppa
  5. Physics

    Electrons as math whizzes

    A new paper suggests the possibility that the behavior of electrons in quantum systems could verify Riemann’s famous conjecture about prime numbers.

    By Davide Castelvecchi
  6. Life

    Gene linked to commitment-phobia

    A common gene variation in men is linked to marital crises and less bonding in a study of more than 500 long-term couples.

    By Laura Beil
  7. Health & Medicine

    Older, not better

    Having an older father might increase a person’s risk of developing bipolar disorder, a large population survey finds.

    By Nathan Seppa
  8. Space

    Cosmic heavyweight

    Astronomers discover the heftiest, most distant galaxy cluster, suggesting evidence for dark energy’s existence.

    By Ashley Yeager
  9. Neuroscience

    New insights on new neurons

    Neurogenesis works differently in two parts of the brain. New neurons are necessary for making memories and keep the olfactory bulb’s structure but aren’t needed for smelling, study in mice shows.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  10. Humans

    Obama Likes Research

    Featured blog: The Obama campaign answers 14 questions posed by the Science Debate 2008 committee, and research figured prominently in most of the answers.

    By Janet Raloff
  11. Health & Medicine

    Candidates weigh in on biomedicine

    Obama and McCain weigh in on stem cells, federal research funding, and preventive medicine.

    By Janet Raloff
  12. Math

    Founder of the Secret Society of Mathematicians

    Henri Cartan, one of the leaders of a revolution in mathematics, dies at 104.

    By Julie Rehmeyer