Vol. 137 No. 2759, August 2008
Index
- "Politics of pain" demonized by DEA.
- Instant messaging cuts workplace interruption.
- Yesterday's worlds of tomorrow.
- Controlling swine flu by charting outbreak.
- Demand grows for "green" hotels.
- Media must educate, not panic, populace.
- Passenger delays continue to worsen.
- Swine flu vaccine in the works.
- A 47,000,000-year-old skeleton.
- Adding ultrasound to mammography finds more cancers than mammography alone, but substantially increases the number of false-positives, points out Etta Pisano, professor of radiology and biomedical engineering and director of the Biomedical Research Imaging Center at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
- Climate-related security impacts (sea-level rise, water scarcity, and temperature change, for instance) could be significant when they cause "a noticeable--even if temporary--degradation in one of the elements of national power.
- Consumers could save fuel and money while reducing carbon emissions through greater use of low-weight aluminum in hybrid--and diesel-powered vehicles, according to a study released by The Aluminum Association, Inc., Arlington, Va.
- Former NHL All-Star Keith Primeau is donating his brain upon death to the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at Boston University School of Medicine--joining more than 100 former professional, college, and high school athletes--to help solve the sports concussion crisis.
- Individuals are less likely to hold onto existing ideas about a brand if they are made to feel a sense of difficulty thinking about it, especially when time-pressured, maintains Kyoungmi Lee, assistant professor of marketing at Kansas State University, Manhattan.
- New technology to link cartridge cases to guns by engraving microscopic codes on the firing pin is feasible, but did not work equally well for all guns and ammunition tested in a pilot study by researchers from the forensic science program at the University of California, Davis.
- Nose knows how to stave off infection.
- Parents can alleviate children's fears.
- Pork produced with antibiotics safer.
- Since parasites depend on their hosts for survival.
- Temperature is key to reducing risks.
- The burgeoning field of "museomics".
- The word "biofuel" makes most people think of grain ethanol and biodiesel.
- Three in four likely voters support offshore drilling for much-needed oil in U.S. coastal waters and 59% also favor drilling for oil in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, a Zogby International poll shows.
- Americans suffering "diet disconnect".
- Baseball diamonds and world's fair wonders.
- Georgia on my mind: famous photographers capture Georgia O'Keeffe.
- New microscope has super resolution.
- Aerial portraits of the American West: photographs by John Shelton.
- Environmentalism is not a good thing.
- Fingerprints to reveal drug use.
- Microscope is chip off the old block.
- Mosquito gene linked to insecticide resistance.
- Seeking solace in television.
- Shrinking ozone hole affecting climate.
- Bacteria able to linger long term.
- Implantable lens makes glasses unnecessary.
- Is global warming natural or manmade?
- Are bats being vampired to death?
- Certain corals resist bleaching.
- Discovering greatness in the Negro Leagues.
- Mind may be MVP of the diamond.
- Scientists discover new pacific iguana.
- A link between the animate and inanimate.
- Birds' movements reveal global warming threat.
- Foraging deer help (not hinder) diversity.
- Bollworm beats the odds against Bt.
- Bush Administration abusing "secret law".
- Food factors in on global warming.
- Media Trojan horses skewing coverage.
- Reality TV begets "promiscuous friending".
- Wealthy nations should buy tropical forests.
- Why are flies so hard to swat?
- Can "voter gene" influence elections?
- Does Atlantic ocean cause African droughts?
- Earth's fires fuel global warming.
- Republicans better at picking a president.
- Westerly winds bring hotter, drier weather.
- Bury the trees--and C[O.sub.2]--in the ground.
- Dynamic wind action discovered on Mars.
- Entrepreneurs can curb dramatic climate change.
- Sculpting the baroque world of Fernando Botero.
- Where the ocean meets the rain forest.
- Lungs' ozone defense defused.
- Reactor construction continues to lag.
- A primate's fragrance speaks volumes.
- Are you coming on to me?
- Dollar goes down as oil prices go up.
- Earlier water-to-land transition found.
- Gasoline and corn prices are linked.
- Platypus unlocks evolution's secrets.
- Searching for cause of clear air turbulence.
- Young problem gamblers losing their shirts.
- Fertile ground for uncertainty.
- It's okay to keep feelings inside.
- Prehistoric snake: 43 feet long, 2,500 pounds.
- Users ringing up more risks.
- Hall of human origins unlocks mankind's secrets.
- Redesigning urban transport.