
The 2009 Science Breakthrough of the Year -- Ardipithecus ramidus -- the 9 runners up, and the 2009 virus of the year -- the novel H1N1 influenza.

Science Magazine Podcast Robert Frederick here -- the 2009 Breakthroughs of the Year podcast is up! You can check out all the breakthroughs via the link below. Happy listening, watching, and reading!
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A rare 4.4-million-year-old skeleton draws back the curtain of time to reveal the surprising body plan and ecology of our earliest ancestors.

A newly discovered complete skeleton of a dinosaur; the hurdles remaining for solar thermochemical fuels; strategies for mitigating flooding -- the most damaging natural disaster; and more.

Silencing a microRNA to treat hepatitis C; the combined effects of nitrogen and carbon dioxide on plant diversity; an essay on the future of evolution; and more.

Science Magazine Podcast Robert Frederck here -- latest is up! This week: a potential way to defuse a 'viral time bomb' (hepatitis C); results from a 10-year experiment looking at the interactions between elevated nitrogen and carbon dioxide on plant species diversity; the last of the essays celebrating the year of Darwin (Carl Zimmer writes... on "The Origin of Tomorrow"); and a wrap up of some of the latest science stories from ScienceNOW. Happy Listening!
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Silencing a microRNA leads to long-lasting suppression of hepatitis C virus in a primate model; elevated carbon dioxide mitigates plant diversity loss caused by nitrogen deposition; an essay on the future of evolution; and more.

Speciation by natural and sexual selection; making sense of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age; following the stimulus funding for science in the United States; and more.

The demise of mammoths, mastodons, and other megafauna; strengthening memories during sleep; cleaning up after oil production from Canada's tar sands; and more.

Climate change predictions; the function of telomeres; creating hermaphroditic worms; overcoming the challenges to become a scientist; and more.

Science Magazine Podcast Robert Frederick here -- latest podcast is up! This week: the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen; puzzling out how telomeres work; changing female worms into hermaphrodites; an editorial on becoming a scientist, and, of course, a wrap-up of a selection of some of the latest ScienceNOW stories. Happy Listening!
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Developments since the 2007 assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; the mutations that may have led to hermaphroditism in worms; Science's editor-in-chief on becoming a scientist; and more.

Stem cell gene therapy; the origins of religion; an unusually fast-evolving supernova; your Letters to Science; and more.

Pandemic H1N1 and the 2009 Hajj pilgrimage; the contribution of inherited wealth to economic inequality; the experiences of four Nobel laureates as women in the sciences; and more.

Science Magazine Podcast Robert Frederick here -- latest podcast is up! This week: what's killing amphibians around the world, and how; a major error in accounting for carbon emissions when it comes to bioenergy; profiliing two enormous telescope projects and the scientists behind them; and a wrap-up of some the latest stories from ScienceNOW. Happy Listening!
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Fixing a climate accounting error from the Kyoto protocols; understanding the fungal infection behind the decline in frogs; competing projects for large, ground-based telescopes; and more.

Science Magazine Podcast Robert Frederick here -- in Austin at now the U.S. Council for the Advancement of Science Writing meeting -- this morning, we heard from, among others, Steven Weinberg about what the LHC may tell us, Sam Gosling on stuff -- what it reveals about you, and now, I'm listening to Andrea Gore talking about the brain in repr...oduction and aging. If you're here, please say 'hello!' (Heading back to D.C. this afternoon.)















