Issue for the week of December 17th, 2011

3-D entertainment steps beyond the glasses and headaches (p. 18)

Lesser-known genetic material helps explain why humans are human (p. 22)

Ancient Greek trading vessels carried much more than wine (p. 26)

Pockets of liquid water underlie fractured ice on the Jupiter moon?s surface, a new study concludes. (p. 5)

A tough new form of the 20th century?s signature polymer could extend its usefulness and make it more recyclable. (p. 8)

Scientists build the world?s tiniest electric ?roadster,? and zap it into action. (p. 8)

German scientists claim to have squeezed the gas into a liquid that could have multiple applications. (p. 9)

Feat opens the door to probing the stuff of nocturnal dramas. (p. 10)

A true trance can't be faked, research suggests. (p. 10)

Women victimized as children or in adolescence have increased cardiac disease in adulthood, a study shows. (p. 11)

Vitamin D and heart disease, the effectiveness of external defibrillators, a shot to lower cholesterol, and more from the Orlando, Fla., meeting. (p. 11)

Evidence in teeth suggests that sauropods sought greener pastures in dry North American summers. (p. 12)

A mammal fossil unearthed in South America resembles ?Ice Age? saber-toothed squirrel. (p. 12)

Sooty brown clouds may underlie the recent emergence of mega-storms striking from India to the Middle East. (p. 13)

Neuroscientists consider defense applications of recent insights into how the brain works. (p. 14)

A common DNA variant affects the pace of age-related decline in performance on skilled tasks like flying a plane. (p. 16)

Dappled animals, once thought to be the result of selective breeding after domestication, were around when early humans depicted them on cave walls. (p. 16)

Earth?s tug or asteroid impacts may have generated the ancient lunar magnetic field. (p. 17)

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Review by Erika Engelhaupt (p. 28)

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A ?living fossil? gets new family members as more coelacanths turn up. (p. 32)

Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/issue/id/336656/title/Issue_for_the_week_of_December_17th,_2011

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