CHEMICAL NEWS

• Leaders 'likely' to go to summit
• Studies 'overstate species risks'
• Minister 'backs adviser autonomy'
• Horse genome unlocked by science
• Scientists urge respect on advice
• Babies 'cry in mother's tongue'
• Tiny tech sparks cell signal find
• Major quakes could be aftershocks
• How 'spirit bears' use their appearance to fish successfully
• The quest to save world's rarest duck - the Madagascar pochard
• Yucatan wonders
• Earth Watch
• Getting warm
• Rocket and roll
• Flexetarian
• Breathing In
• Saving the trillionth tonne of coal
• Casting a net far into the future
• Species' extinction threat grows
• Polar bear plus grizzly equals?
• F1 designer unveils electric car
• Light down a wire for solar power
• Messenger spies iron on Mercury
• Minister 'appalled' by Nutt exit
• US praises China space progress
• Clues sought to bear mystery
• Rare whale gathering sighted
• Meet T. rex's most ancient relative
• GPS used to preserve ants' nests
• Obama urges effort on climate

• Seattle team wins $900,000 in Space Elevator Games (AP)
• Sea lions killed, but Columbia salmon toll rises (AP)
• Genetic tests for UK asylum seekers draw criticism (AP)
• Alps Grow and Shrink at Same Time (LiveScience.com)
• Gov't in push for new nuclear plants (AFP)
• Obama Urged to Find Climate Money (OneWorld.net)
• Space Junk Buzzes Station as Astronauts Sleep (SPACE.com)
• Gene Therapy for Fatal Brain Disorder 'Just the Beginning' (HealthDay)
• World leaders needed at talks to cut climate deal (AP)
• Circus elephant that escaped and was hit by SUV OK (AP)
• Dinosaur prints found on NZealand's South Island (AFP)
• Shell Oil to pay $19.5M in environmental fines (AP)
• The nation's weather (AP)
• Seattle Team Wins $900,000 in Space Elevator Contest (SPACE.com)
• Genes Linked to 'Pot' Belly (HealthDay)
• Exxon follows China lead in clinching Iraq oil deal (AFP)
• Ida drenches Central America, might approach US (AP)

• A Horse Is a Horse, of Course
• Cluster Electronics and Catalysis
• Simulating Surfaces
• Missing Mass Explained?
• Nitrogen Overload
• Entangling Rainbows
• Long-Lost Pollinators
• Butterfly Apartheid
• Slowing Brain Disease with Gene Therapy
• Bacterial Trigger of Plant Protection
• The Death of Cocco
• Goldilocks Immunology
• Desert Balancing Act
• Small-Molecule Protease Activator
• Shivering Viromes
• Self-Renewing Macrophages

• Experts Criticize Nanoparticle Study
• Who's That Sexy Swine?
• More Support for Human Role in Chinese Quake
• Gene Therapy Halts Brain Disease in Two Boys
• Don't Shush That Baby, It's Learning
• The $4400 Genome
• Pushing Earth With a Breath of Air
• No Sprinting Advantage With Prosthetic Limbs
• LHC Violates Human Rights? Swine Flu Vaccine for Poor Countries?
• Famed Anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss Dies
• The Mountains That Froze the World
• A Body Count for Two Man-Eating Lions
• Brain Damaged But Self-Aware
• Whence the Falklands Wolf?

• Astronomy: Gazing Through the Dust
• Engineering: Wide Yet Sensitive
• Signal Transduction: Single-Molecule Sensitivity
• Ecology: Timing Is Everything