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5 STORY ONE
s Satellites see groundwater
disappearing
8 BODY & BRAIN
s Faces not so special, study
suggests
s Hemophilia gene therapy
shows promise
10 ATOM & COSMOS
s Earth-sized planets found
s Biggest black holes yet
s Giant Christmas 2010
gamma-ray burst still puzzles
12 LIFE
s Lumbering lungfish suggest
walking began in water
s Borneo orangutans often
lack protein
s Sparrows lose their edge just
from hearing predators
s Early birds got eaten by
feathered dinosaur
14 HUMANS
s Arabian tools may hint at
early African exodus
s Medieval relic turns out to
be Ptolemaic
16 GENES & CELLS
s Dormant microbes make
outbreaks hard to track
s Monarch genome netted
s Naked mole rats’ acid solution
18 SCIENCE & SOCIETY
s A little indifference might
be good for democracy
s Data mining finds hints of
market manipulation
Features
20 SOFTWARE SCIENTIST
A computer program developed
at Cornell deduces the laws of
nature.
By Rachel Ehrenberg
22 BRAINY BALLPLAYERS
COVER STORY: Success in sports
relies on a quick and focused
mind — not just might.
By Nick Bascom
26 IN A SQUEEZE
To learn about the inner Earth
and exotic realms of the
universe, scientists ramp up
laboratory pressures.
By Alexandra Witze
Departments
2 FROM THE EDITOR
4 NOTEBOOK
30 BOOKSHELF
31 FEEDBACK
32 FROM THE ARCHIVE
A pituitary hormone goes from
labor drug to love drug.
