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It’s written all over your face: To potential mates, your mug may reveal more than you think
Team spirit: Working together, bacteria and other microbes can accomplish much more than they can alone. Now scientists hope to harness that ability by engineering their own microbial consortia.
For a big view of inner Earth, catch a few…Geoneutrinos
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Molecules: Science news of the year, 2008

Science News writers and editors looked back at the past year's stories and selected a handful as the year's most interesting and important in Molecules. Follow hotlinks to the full, original stories.
Found in: Molecules
Hot new memory

A study of the physics of phonons, quantum packets of heat, suggests that controlling the flow of heat could be another way to store digital information.
Found in: Matter & Energy, Molecules and Technology
FOR KIDS: Graphene's superstrength

Scientists believe that graphene may change the world of electronics.
Found in: Materials Science
Science & the Public: Of Presidents and Nobels

It appears Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will soon have produced two Nobel laureates to offer White House counsel and directives on science policy.
Found in: Chemistry, Matter & Energy, Science & Society and Technology
Science & the Public: ENV Tidbits: Corals, nano concerns, and more

News nuggets on climate-imperiled corals, nanotech worries, and soft drinks bearing pesticides.
Found in: Chemistry, Climate Change, Environment, Food Science, Molecules, Nutrition, Science & Society and Technology
Superglass could be new state of matter

Simulations of helium-4 show that a superglass, in which atoms flow without friction, is possible.
Found in: Matter & Energy and Molecules
Engineered bacteria create high-energy biofuel

Scientists alter E. coli microbes to make a high-energy alcohol not produced naturally
Found in: Chemistry, Genes & Cells and Science & Society
FOR KIDS: A clean getaway

New household cleaners may make blood hard to find at crime scenes.
Found in: Chemistry, Molecules, Science News For Kids and Technology
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Sights and Sounds

Photography

Atom Flipping
New equations for better MRI

Blogs:

Science & the Public Big Increase Coming for NIH — Maybe
By Janet Raloff Dec 19th 2008

Columns:

Comment SESAME opens doors to international collaboration
By Herman Winick Jan 2nd 2009

Math Trek The Sudoku solution
By Julie Rehmeyer Dec 23rd 2008

Not to Miss:

2008: Science News of the Year

Thwarting tree poachers

Pulsars in a new light

Guest column from Steven Chu

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