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Potent Promise: Essential Stemness
30 08 2008 Scientists move closer to understanding the dual fates of embryonic stem cells â€â€‰to divide or develop
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Issue for the week of September 13th, 2008
30 08 2008
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Comment: Protecting the Internet from the criminal element, by Eugene Spafford
30 08 2008 From the September 13, 2008 issue of Science News
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Book Review : Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming
30 08 2008 Michael E. Mann and Lee R. Kump, DK Publishing, 2008, 208 p., $25
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Book Review : Out of the Blue
30 08 2008 John S. Friedman, Delacorte Press, 2008, 290 p., $24
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Book Review : What’s the Big Idea? Four Centuries of Innovation in Boston
30 08 2008 Stephen Krensky, Charlesbridge, 2008, 64 p., $18.95
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Book Review : DNA: Promise and Peril
30 08 2008 Linda L. McCabe and Edward R.B. McCabe, Univ. of California Press, 2008, 339 p., $39.95
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Book Review : The Complete Herb Book
30 08 2008 Jekka McVicar, Firefly Books, 2008, 304 p., $29.95
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Book Review : The Gulf Stream: Tiny Plankton, Giant Bluefin, and the Amazing Story of the Powerful River in the Atlantic
30 08 2008 Review by Nathan Seppa
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Book Review : Central Park in the Dark: More Mysteries of Urban Wildlife
30 08 2008 Review by Rachel Ehrenberg
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Honey of a discovery
30 08 2008 An ancient Israeli site yields the oldest known archaeological example of beekeeping
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Math Trek: Founder of the Secret Society of Mathematicians
30 08 2008 Henri Cartan, one of the leaders of a revolution in mathematics, dies at 104
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Science & the Public: Candidates Weigh in on Biomedicine
30 08 2008 Obama and McCain weigh in on stem cells, federal research funding, and preventive medicine.
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Potent Promise: Back to the Womb
30 08 2008 Reverting adult cells to an embryonic state without creating embryos is a tricky business
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It’s Likely That Times Are Changing
30 08 2008 A century ago, mathematician Hermann Minkowski famously merged space with time, establishing a new foundation for physics; 
today physicists are rethinking how the two should fit together
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Science & the Public: Kids Deserve Their Own Science News
29 08 2008 Where to find cool and informative middle-school-appropriate news on science: Here.
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Ice spy
29 08 2008 A new way for satellites to spot small bergs
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Alarming sex appeal
29 08 2008 Roosters that call out in alarm prove popular with the hens
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Clashing clusters
29 08 2008 Two galaxy clusters collide to give astronomers a clue about dark matter
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Eye protection
29 08 2008 A gene variant may guard against a blinding eye disease that strikes the elderly
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Pollinator manipulators
29 08 2008 Plant laces nectar with poison to better control visitors
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Past gasps
29 08 2008 Ancient atmosphere not as oxygen-poor as once thought
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A-beta on the brain
29 08 2008 The protein increases with brain activity as patients recover from brain injury
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A difficult breakup
29 08 2008 Separating fluorine from carbon could neutralize super-greenhouse gases
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Little big people
27 08 2008 Prehistoric Pacific islanders grow in stature and controversy with new finds
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