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• New technology links European genetics and geography

  Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 5:32pm EDT

  New gene chips - devices that test the DNA at sites along the genome - can assess 500,000 of the genome's three billion units at a time. When these differences are added together, a linkage emerges.

• Will it kill you? New charts detail the odds

  Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 5:32pm EDT

  New risk charts in a paper published in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute provide a broader perspective than most of the risk calculators on the Internet.

• Beyond carbon: Scientists worry about nitrogen's effects

  Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 8:52am EDT

  Public discussion of climate change is largely reduced to carbon, but other chemicals have large roles in the planet's health, and a growing number of researchers are looking at nitrogen.

• Europeans' genomes reveal their geographic origins

  Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 8:52am EDT

  There seems to be a geographical pattern to European genetics. By analyzing people's genomes, geneticists can tell roughly where in Europe they come from.

• Do animals grieve over death like we do?

  Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 8:52am EDT

  Everywhere in nature, biologists say, are examples of animals behaving as though they were at least vaguely aware of death's brutal supremacy and yet unpersuaded that it had anything to do with them.

• Question of usefulness lingers for cholesterol drug

  Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 8:52am EDT

  Doctors continue to heavily prescribe the cholesterol drug Vytorin, though six years after its approval there is still no proof that the drug helps patients live longer or avoid heart attacks.