yoruba combined: Issue for the week of August 11th, 2012

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Lifting neural constraints could turn back time, making way for youthful flexibility (p. 18)

New joint tissue could keep people moving, reducing need for knee or hip replacements (p. 22)

Scientists seek enzymes that don?t mind working at high temperatures (p. 26)

A computer simulation forecasts insurgent activity by analyzing U.S. military logs released on WikiLeaks. (p. 5)

Electric fields enveloping magnetic bubbles may form mysterious lunar swirls. (p. 8)

Space telescope?s discovery announced on Twitter. (p. 8)

Astronomers visualize a connection in a shadowy cosmic network that is thought to pervade the universe. (p. 9)

Radio telescopes, operating in the future at a different frequency, might be able to discern the stellar signature, researchers suggest. (p. 9)

Rac1b might promote malignancy, could be a target for treatment. (p. 10)

When people keep hurting long after an injury heals, a process similar to addiction may be at work. (p. 10)

Complex patterns slow down object recognition in patients with disorder. (p. 11)

(p. 11)

Extra sensitivity to the hormone in certain developing tissues might give animals their oversized weapons and ornaments. (p. 12)

An evolutionary biologist?s modest proposal shocks colleagues who thought they knew everything about their favorite laboratory organism. (p. 12)

Iron-rich tissue may be at root of a biological compass. (p. 13)

Climate change can explain some 2011 departures from the norm. (p. 14)

Guatemalan find suggests mention of a date far in the future served a Maya king?s immediate needs. (p. 15)

Creators of separate spearhead styles colonized North America more than 13,000 years ago. (p. 15)

After 11 days in orbit, nematodes showed signs of slower aging. (p. 16)

(p. 16)

Review by Alexandra Witze (p. 30)

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(p. 4)

Comic strip science (p. 32)

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