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Aug 5

Revolutionary Technique Could Reduce Lifelong Drugs For Transplant Patients Vancouver's Green Efforts for the 2010 Winter Games [Features] When Our Protective Armor Shows Weakness: Genetic Defect In Skin Cells Leads To Neurodermatitis, Hay Fever And Asthma Monogamy Is Responsible for the Evolution of Bees [Scientific American Magazine] Back to the Future: Harnessing the Power of the Yangtze River [Slide Show] [Features] Sleep Apnea Is An Independent Risk Factor For Mortality, Australian Study Shows Certain HIV Treatment Less Effective When Used With Anti-TB Therapy Where have all the monkeys gone? [60-Second Science Blog] What will Tropical Storm Eduardo do? [60-Second Science Blog] Process By Which All Blood Cells Originate Is Essentially The Same Throughout Mammal World SciAm Mind Calendar: August/September 2008 [Scientific American Mind] Nanotechnology: Size-specific Cracking Shakes Smoky Home: Cleaning Up Indoor Air with Human Waste [Features] Long-term HIV Treatment May Reduce Risk For Atherosclerosis China's Efforts to Make the Olympics Green [EarthTalk] New Role Found For A 'Foxy Old Gene' One Fifth Of British Adult Survivors Of Childhood Cancer Smoke Despite Hazards Family Type Has Less-than-expected Impact On Parental Involvement, Study Finds Little Teeth Suggest Big Jump In Primate Timeline Microbe Diet Key To Carbon Dioxide Release Five scientific discoveries that got the wrong name Military Use Of Robots Increases Saving Our Bees: Implications of Habitat Loss Data Mining Detects Signs Of Lou Gehrig's Disease In Gene Carriers Long Before Symptoms Appear Long Work Hours Widen The Gender Gap Cost Of Stabbings To Britain's Health Service Revealed Tevatron Experiments Double-team Higgs Boson Magnifying Taste: New Chemicals Trick the Brain into Eating Less [Scientific American Magazine] Patagonian Glacier Yields Clues For Improved Understanding Of Global Climate Change Duck-billed Dinosaurs Outgrew Predators To Survive NASA Says Perchlorate Does Not Rule Out Life on Mars [News] Solar sail and ashes of Star Trek's "Scotty" lost in SpaceX rocket failure [60-Second Science Blog] Martian Life Or Not? NASA's Phoenix Team Analyzes Results Apple disses hackers' Black Hat convention [60-Second Science Blog] Novel Kind Of Learning Gene Discovered Thousands Of Globular Clusters Identified In Virgo Cluster Of Galaxies Two Years Old: A Childhood Obesity Tipping Point? Research Suggests That Childhood Obesity Begins In Infancy Gorillas Galore In Congo [60-Second Science] Wind Powered Vehicle, Ventomobile, Ready To Race In The Netherlands 1Breakthrough In Quantum Mechanics: Superconducting Electronic Circuit Pumps Microwave Photons China's Big Push for Renewable Energy [Features] High Use Of Complementary Methods Found Among Cancer Survivors Researchers Tag First-ever Free-swimming Leatherback Turtles In New England IPCC 'wrong' on logging threat to climate Genetic Evidence Used To Trace Ancient African Migration Tracking Down Abrupt Climate Changes: Rapid Natural Cooling Occurred 12,700 Years Ago Sleep Apnea Linked To Increased Risk Of Death A Finding, Perhaps, but Not of Mars Life Recurrence Of Group B Strep High In Subsequent Pregnancies, Say Obstetricians First National Study Of Diving-related Injuries Vitamin C Injections Slow Tumor Growth In Mice New Panel Of Mice Helps Predict How Drugs Are Broken Down In Humans Growth Hormone Treatment For HIV Patients Improves Abdominal Fat, But Worsens Glucose Level Climate Change And Species Distributions Nano-coated bullets could help solve gun crimes [60-Second Science Blog] Ancient Bones Hold TB Clues [60-Second Science] Breast Cancer Confessions: Emotional Work Of Disclosing A Diagnosis A Natural Log: Our Innate Sense of Numbers is Logarithmic, Not Linear [Scientific American Mind] Growth Hormone Reduces Abdominal Fat, Cardiovascular Risk In HIV Patients On Antiviral Therapy Endoscopic Circumferential Ablation Promising For Barrett's Esophagus With High-grade Dysplasia Antiviral Therapy Helps Children At Risk For Post-transplant Lymphoproliferative Disease Exposure To Agent Orange Linked To Prostate Cancer In Vietnam Veterans 'Lost world' of gorillas discovered in the Congo Antarctic Fossils Paint Picture Of Much Warmer Continent Decision Making in the Brain: Eavesdropping on Neurons [Mind Matters] Carbon Capture Milestone In China GPS cellphones to unleash gamers onto the streets Chronic Exposure To Estrogen Impairs Some Cognitive Functions X-ray Diffraction Looks Inside Aerogels In 3-D China, the Olympics, and the Environment [In-Depth Reports] Depression Found To Hasten Decline In Cancer Patients Homeownership In Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Linked To Increased Political Participation Turning Those Old Electronic Circuit Boards Into New Park Benches Perchlorate found on Mars makes soil less Earthlike [60-Second Science Blog] Highway of Good Intentions? Vancouver Olympic Plans Bulldoze Rare Forests [Features] Sesame Seed Extract And Konjac Gum May Help Ward Off Salmonella And E. Coli Outdoor Activity And Nearsightedness In Children Testosterone And Body Fat Are Controlled By The Same Genes Toxic Drugs, Toxic System: Sociologist Predicts Drug Disasters Immune System Protein Accurate Predictor Of Survival In Pediatric Septic Shock Squeaky Mice Reveal Emotion, Self-Expression in the Brain [Scientific American Mind] Beijing Olympics: BMX Bikers Search for Gold on Laoshan Mountain [Features] 1Software predicts where El Niño will strike next Estrogen Relieves Psychotic Symptoms In Women With Schizophrenia Nano Sculptures In Gold The Curious Cook: In the Summer Kitchen, the Thrill of the Chill Immunotherapy In High-risk Pediatric Sarcomas Shows Promising Response Job Rijssenbeek: Balancing Science and Life [Where Are They Now?] Anthrax genes will point to perpetrator One In Ten Children Using Cough, Cold Medications Bulging Prison System Called Massive Intervention In American Family Life Arresting And Self-healing Cracks: Paving The Way For Next Generation Composite Materials Overcoming Inhibitors Of Cell Death Improves Cancer Therapy Efficacy Rest Assured: The Brain Practices the Day's Lessons as We Sleep [60-Second Psych] Seeing is Hearing: New Type of Synesthesia Discovered [Scientific American Mind] Gold Nanoshells Help Visibly Heat And Destroy Cancer International Panel Updates Treatment Guidelines For HIV Infection Teacher-student Relationships Key To Learning Health And Sex Education Guilt On Their Hands: Tiny 'Tags' Could Help To Solve And Deter Gun Crime Scientists Create a Map of Smell Similarity based on Neural Activity [Scientific American Mind] 1Australian Bird Research Could Rewrite 'Ring Theory' Of Speciation Project Aims To Improve Energy Efficiency Of Computing Folklore gets it wrong on love matches Happiness Lengthens Life The Price of Gas in China [Features] 1Strategies To Control TB Outdated, Inadequate, Analysis Shows 'Cosmic Ghost' Discovered By Volunteer Astronomer In Archived Images Of Night Sky Maternal Deaths Following Cesarean Delivery Can Be Reduced New Gene Therapy Kills Pancreatic Cancer Cells Do Mythic Creatures Exist? Show Me the Body [Features] Memory, Depression, Insomnia -- And Worms? Epilepsy Drug May Help Alcoholics Recover From Dependence, Small Study Suggests Male dominance is no guarantee of genetic success Viterbi Algorithm Goes Quantum Paradox Of Higher Education, Crime: Male College Students More Likely Than Less-educated Peers To Commit Property Crimes, Study Finds Lowering Cholesterol Early In Life Could Save Lives Eating Fish May Prevent Memory Loss And Stroke In Old Age World's Smallest Snake Found In Barbados The School Bully: Does It Run In The Family? Green mystery blob may reveal black hole's last meal Possible Cause Of Endometriosis Identified Sunrise on China's First Carbon-Neutral City [Features] Can Coal and Clean Air Coexist in China? [Features] Birdman/Bandman: A Q&A with Shearwater's Jonathan Meiburg [Features] Half of world's primates face extinction World's First Transplant Of Both Arms Protein Folding: One Picture Per Millisecond Illuminates The Process Extinction Threat To Monkeys And Other Primates Due To Habitat Loss, Hunting Schizophrenia: Costly By-product Of Human Brain Evolution? U.S. HIV estimates 40 percent higher than previously thought [60-Second Science Blog] Mind Reviews: Books, Movies & More [Scientific American Mind] Phoenix soil results released after days of speculation There Are More Boys Than Girls in China and India [Fact or Fiction] Congresswoman Slams Religious Right's Assault on Science's "Edgier" Side [News] Networks Of Metal Nanoparticles Are Culprits In Alloy Corrosion What does the White House know about life on Mars that you don't? [60-Second Science Blog] A Mechanism For The Development Of Obesity-associated Conditions Combating Secondary Infections In Clinics 1Fuel Cell Efficiency May Be Improved With Material With 'Colossal Ionic Conductivity' Investigating Sea Ice Decline Telemedicine Leads To Better Stroke Treatment Decisions, Study Finds Next Generation Tool For Visualizing Genomic Data Introduced