CHEMICAL NEWS

• Great tits cope well with warming
• New batch of walruses gets tagged
• 'No bias' against UK astronauts
• Platypus genetic code unravelled
• EU's sat-nav pioneer calls home
• Nasa set to join petaflop elite
• Food waste on 'staggering' scale
• Cod fall may speed 'toxic tide'
• Type of body fat 'boosts health'
• Stem cells may lessen transplants
• Genes 'up Indians' obesity risk'
• Study sheds light on spider sex
• Hubble flight slips by 4-5 weeks
• Probe into giant iguana slaughter
• Mangrove loss 'put Burma at risk'
• Joy over India tiger cubs births
• Rallying cry from frog stronghold
• Tropics insects 'face extinction'
• Urban spaces need green rethink
• Time for small changes is over
• Highland Diary: Remote munro

• Training Scientists to Run for Office [60-Second Science]
• Legislation Introduced to Spur Treatments for Brain Ailments [News]
• Scientists Build Nano Hot Rods [News]
• To Catch a Plutonium Thief, Try Antineutrinos [News]
• What's Our Connection to the Platypus? [News]
• Whatever Happened to the Pioneer Spacecraft? [Scientific American Magazine]
• An Uninsured Doctor in the House [Features]
• Cloth-Eating Fungus Could Make Fuel [60-Second Science]
• Myanmar Cyclone: Before and After [Image Gallery]
• Quake Shakes Tokyo [News]
• Evolution Enclaves: Darwin the Botanist and Origins of Life Research [Science Talk]
• Are Personal Genome Scans Medically Useless? [Scientific American Magazine]
• Virus Outbreak Shakes China [Sciam Observations Blog]
• Mind Control by Cell Phone [Mind Matters]
• Were Dinos on Their Way Out Before the Meteor? [60-Second Science]
• New Twist on Nanowires [Image Gallery]
• The Monitor, ep. 13--Colossal Squid, Narwhals and Improvisational Robotics [The Monitor]
• Toasted Bugs? Tropical Insects May Not Thrive in Warming World [News]
• Can You Catch Up on Lost Sleep? [Fact or Fiction]
• Chile Volcano Eruption Sends Residents Fleeing, Causes One Death [News]
• How Boys Become Boys (and Sometimes Girls) [News]
• A Dump Truck for the 21st Century [News]
• Why the Next President Needs a Powerful Science Adviser [Scientific American Magazine]
• Cell Number Is Future Fat Fight Front [60-Second Science]
• The Monitor: Episode 13 [SciAm Exclusives Video]
• More than 22,000 Dead, 40,000 Missing from Myanmar Cyclone [News]
• A Bug's Sex Life: A Q&A with Isabella Rossellini [Features]
• Sundance Channel Presents: Green Porno [Video] [Features]
• Hard Drive Recovered from Columbia Shuttle Solves Physics Problem [News]
• Are There Missing Pieces to the Human Genome Project? [News]
• Dog Walking Irks Birds [Features]
• The Lure of Bette Davis Eyes [60-Second Psych]
• Protein Shape Data Confirms Life's Genealogy [60-Second Science]
• Regulating Evolution: How Gene Switches Make Life [Scientific American Magazine]
• Fishing for Oxygen in Warming Oceans [News]
• News Bytes of the Week--Was the Red Baron Just Lucky? [News]
• Do different cells in our nose respond to different smells? [Ask the Experts]
• A Silver Coating in the Fight Against Microbes [News]
• Fishing Lines That Repel Sharks [60-Second Science]
• 100 Years Ago: Whitest Printing Plant in the World [Scientific American Magazine]
• Congress Passes Bill Barring Genetic Discrimination [News]
• Charcoal in Burned Forests No Way to Store Carbon [News]
• James Watson, six months later, still apologizing [Sciam Observations Blog]
• Missing Link of Electronics Discovered: "Memristor" [News]
• Buried Prejudice: The Bigot in Your Brain [Scientific American Mind]
• Nutcracker Man Preferred Soft Fruits [60-Second Science]
• Puzzling Adventures: How to Make Buses More Attractive Than Cars? [Puzzling Adventures]
• Court Orders U.S. to Stop Keeping Polar Bear Status on Ice [News]
• Albert Hofmann, Inventor of LSD, Embarks on Final Trip [News]
• Researchers Make Human Flu Antibodies at Record Speed [News]

• Oldest gorilla in captivity turns 55 at Dallas Zoo (AP)
• New idea in mortuary science: Dissolving bodies with lye (AP)
• Seaweed provides clues to earliest inhabitants of Americas (AP)
• Conservationists, developer reach major Calif. land deal (AP)
• Why Doesn't Evolution Discourage Suicide? (LiveScience.com)
• Weather around the U.S.A. (AP)
• Private Space Station Prototype Hits Orbital Milestone (SPACE.com)
• Federal judge in Montana rejects bid to delay wolf lawsuit (AP)
• US to return Argentine dinosaur eggs (AP)
• Oil price jumps above $126 for first time (AFP)
• Overlooked in the global food crisis: A problem with dirt (AP)

• Water and Ice
• A Not-So-Happy Anniversary
• The Making of the Sahara
• Nanoscale Thermal Motors
• Quantum Dot Optoelectronics
• Pre-Clovis South...
• ...and Pre-Clovis North
• Divide and Conquer
• Birds of a Feather Adapt Together
• Home Is Where the Hearth Is
• Identifying Receptor-Ligand Pairs
• Lights Out
• Viral Subversion Strategy
• Wholesale Heat Shock

• Functionalize carbon nanotubes with minimal electronic perturbation
• Palladium(II) can catalyze olefin dioxygenation
• 1,2-Diamines and 1,2-amino alcohols from common chiral intermediates
• Avoid sulfur contamination from sodium thiosulfate reaction workups
• Use "frozen" ionic liquids to create micro- and nanoparticles
• Self-assembled organic nanoparticles have dual-color emission capability
• A three-component Ugi reaction leads to a-amino amides

• Your Brain on Ethics
• A Slow Birth for the Sahara

• CLIMATE SCIENCE: Ringing in the Old Years
• CELL BIOLOGY: Inflammation Activates Neurons
• BIOPHYSICS: Polar Preferences
• PHYSICS: Guiding Gamma Rays
• CHEMISTRY: Can SWNTs Swim Apart?
• NEUROSCIENCE: Are You a Morning Person?
• PSYCHOLOGY: Seen in a Positive Light