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• [News of the Week] Oil Resources: Splitting the Difference Between Oil Pessim...World production of conventional oil is likely to peak before 2030 and could reach its limits before 2020, a major report from a new voice in the debate over oil depletion warns. In view of the daunting task of weaning the world's transportation off oil, the risk of a peak before 2030 "needs to be given serious consideration," the report says.
Author: Richard A. Kerr
• [News of the Week] Cell Therapies: Clean Pigs Offer Alternative to Stem Cell ...
Within a couple of years, a scientific team hopes to start clinical trials using cells from the first swine herd in the country specially bred to supply insulin-secreting pancreatic islets for people with diabetes. But they face immunological and regulatory challenges, as well as the challenge of overcoming public aversion to the idea.
Author: Constance Holden
• [News of the Week] ScienceNOW.org: From Science's Online Daily News Site
ScienceNOW this week reported that meditation halves the risk of heart disease, empathy is in our genes, holes can block light, and new neurons make room for new memories, among other stories.
• [Book Review] Women in Science: Preferences and Penalties Differ
Surveying and evaluating the scientific literature gender disparities in mathematics, science, and engineering disciplines, Ceci and Williams argue that the underrepresentation of women in these fields is due to "certain choices that women (but not men) are compelled to make in our society."
Author: Raegen T. Miller
• [Perspective] Paleontology: Megafaunal Decline and Fall
Declines in North American megafauna populations began before the Clovis period and were the cause, not the result, of vegetation changes and increased fires.
Author: Christopher Johnson
• [Report] High Symbiont Relatedness Stabilizes Mutualistic Cooperation in Fung...
In symbioses of independently reproducing partners, a genetically uniform population of symbionts excludes cheating variants.
Authors: Duur K. Aanen, Henrik H. de Fine Licht, Alfons J. M. Debets, Niels A. G. Kerstes, Rolf F. Hoekstra, Jacobus J. Boomsma
• [Report] A First-Generation Haplotype Map of Maize
In maize, recombination in the genome has been a limiting factor affecting evolution and breeding efforts.
Authors: Michael A. Gore, Jer-Ming Chia, Robert J. Elshire, Qi Sun, Elhan S. Ersoz, Bonnie L. Hurwitz, Jason A. Peiffer, Michael D. McMullen, George S. Grills, Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, Doreen H. Ware, Edward S. Buckler
• Plasmonic Probing of Catalysis
An understanding of catalytic reactions on surfaces, such as those used in industrial processes, often requires some measure of reactant concentration on the surface. Often this is expressed as the ? [Read more]
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