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    25 Feb 2015 Vol. 347 #6225 

    • Line of attackChristopher Korch is adding up the costs of contaminated cell lines. 
    • What's in a name?Naming research animals may improve their well-being—or bias experiments. 
    • Plumes on Europa tease NASA mission plannersAstrobiologists covet chance to sample subterranean ocean, but plumes may come and go. 
    • New jitters over megaquakes in HimalayasLarge earthquakes in teeming region could strike anywhere, anytime. 
    • As new botulism threat implodes, more questionsSecrecy around “toxin H” hampered research, government scientists say. 
    • Research at Kew overhauled for leaner timesWorld-leading collection focuses on its strengths following critical reviews and budget cuts. 
    • Japan looks to instill global mindset in gradsNew program to internationalize universities hopes to put nation on more competitive footing. 

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• Archaeology

  
  • DNA recovered from underwater British site may rewrite history of farming in Europe
  • Ancient and modern cities obeyed same mathematical rule
  • Indo-European languages tied to herders

• Biology

  
  • NIH sets aside more than $40 million for study of human placenta
  • Do big carnivores practice birth control?
  • Protected areas not safe from light pollution

• Brain & Behavior

  
  • Xeroxed gene may have paved the way for large human brain
  • Video: How to prevent a sheep traffic jam
  • Sound of mom’s voice boosts brain growth in premature babies

• Climate

  
  • Cold Pacific Ocean is offsetting global warming
  • It’s only a game, but even earth scientists struggle to defeat global warming
  • Kublai Khan was a notorious … polluter

• Earth

  
  • Cold Pacific Ocean is offsetting global warming
  • New jitters over megaquakes in Himalayas
  • Plumes on Europa tease NASA mission planners

• Education

  
  • Japan looks to instill global mindset in grads
  • Indian grad students take to streets over miserable pay
  • Ukraine’s science minister aims to mend Soviet-era rift

• Environment

  
  • Protected areas not safe from light pollution
  • What's in a name?
  • Kublai Khan was a notorious … polluter

• Evolution

  
  • Xeroxed gene may have paved the way for large human brain
  • Human DNA enlarges mouse brains
  • Mysterious Indo-European homeland may have been in the steppes of Ukraine and Russia

• Health

  
  • Banned weight-loss drug could combat liver disease, diabetes
  • Results from encouraging Ebola trial scrutinized
  • Common ingredient in packaged food may trigger inflammatory disease

• Paleontology

  
  • Found: Two sophisticated mammals that thrived during the age of the dinosaurs
  • Ratzilla: Ancient giant rodent chomped like a crocodile 
  • Humans and Neandertals likely interbred in Middle East

• People & Events

  
  • Lone physicist in Congress joins science panel
  • What did Leonard Nimoy mean to you?
  • Billionaires for basic research

• Physics

  
  • A step closer to explaining high-temperature superconductivity?
  • Lone physicist in Congress joins science panel
  • Video: How to prevent a sheep traffic jam

• Plants & Animals

  
  • Do big carnivores practice birth control?
  • DNA recovered from underwater British site may rewrite history of farming in Europe
  • QUIZ: The animal stars of science

• Space

  
  • Deep space instrument captures haunting image of comet Lovejoy
  • New instrument peers even deeper than Hubble
  • Plumes on Europa tease NASA mission planners

• Technology

  
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