Table of Contents April 2011

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The U.S. Army wants to allow soldiers to communicate just by thinking.  The new science of synthetic telepathy could soon make that happen.
The discoverer of a gene for a glowing protein  was driving a van for a car dealership in Huntsville, Alabama, when he learned that former colleagues  had won science's greatest honor.﻿


IDing crooks from the DNA in their fingerprints, the 8 percent of our genome that came from viruses, and the plant that laughs at our puny genetic endowment.
A 6-year-old girl cannot speak outside  her home. Is she simply shy, or is some bigger problem keeping her from talking?
The ingenious rig shows animals making real-world decisions in real time.
Google isn't the only company working on truly automated automobiles. Robot cars will reduce accidents, ease congestion, and keep others from interfering with my  excellent driving—especially if we can get the bad drivers into them.
After Sada Mire returned to her homeland, she found archaeological treasures that hadn't been seen in thousands of years.
Without remembering how the past unfolded, trying to plan ahead is "like being in a room with nothing there and having a guy tell you to go find a chair."


There's a lot in the oceans besides water and salt. A series of sampling missions aims to reveal what's happening with the trace elements in seawater.
What to read, view, and visit this month
A mine in South Dakota contained the largest gold deposit in the Western Hemisphere and was the deepest mine in the United States, reaching down more than 8,000 feet. But the real ground-breaking work involved much smaller treasures.
You don't have to go all the way to supernovas to find natural events powerful enough to generate gamma rays...
5,000 years ago, people living in Turkey were surprisingly good at what seems like a purely modern practice.

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