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• MONDAY 6. FEBRUARY, 2012
• 21:00 ScienceShot: Night Songs of the Jurassic

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  Chirping of ancient katydids reconstructed from fossils  

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• 20:31 Antarctica's Lake Vostok: Are They There Yet?

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  Russia's Antarctic team may have reached Lake Vostok at last. Russian news agency RIA...  

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• FRIDAY 3. FEBRUARY, 2012
• 22:59 Podcast: Spider Webs, Ancient Plants, and the Science of Massage

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  Listen to a roundup of some of our favorite stories from this week  

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• 22:36 In the Eye of the Creationist Storm

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  Bruce Kendall says he's proud to call himself "a Jesus man." For the past...  

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• 22:24 ScienceShot: Double-Star System Hosts Ancient World

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  Both suns are 2 billion years older than Earth  

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• 21:20 France Picks Five More University Groups for Major Investment

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  PARIS—French Prime Minister François Fillon today announced that five more conglomerates of universities and...  

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• 20:17 Air Guns Shake Up Earthquake Monitoring

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  A new device may help researchers keep an eye on changing stresses along fault zones  

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• 19:45 Creationist School Bill Looks Doomed in Indiana

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  Legislators in Indiana appear to have fallen short of their goal of injecting creationism...  

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• THURSDAY 2. FEBRUARY, 2012
• 23:08 Aviation Bill Gives Flight to Research, Too

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  After years of controversy and more than 20 extensions of the current law, Congress...  

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• 22:10 ScienceShot: Built by Black Holes?

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  Super-dense objects may help stars form  

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• 21:11 Russia Explores New Phobos-Grunt Mission to Mars

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  Russian space scientists this week floated the idea of building a new version of...  

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• 20:47 Whistleblower Lawsuit Puts Spotlight On FDA Technical Reviews

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  The integrity of the scientific review process appears to be at the heart of...  

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• 20:02 Primed for Addiction?

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  People with brains wired for drug abuse don't necessarily become addicts  

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• 20:01 ScienceShot: Braking a Dead Star's Wild Spin

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  Magnetic fields may tame the most extreme pulsars  

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• 20:00 Climate Change Okay for One Coral

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  Warmer seas spur growth in cooler reefs  

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• 19:50 Closely Watched Study Fails to Find Arsenic in Microbial DNA

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  The debate over whether a bacterium can incorporate arsenic into its DNA just flared...  

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• 17:39 ScienceShot: Two-Dimensional Glass

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  Researchers create world's thinnest pane of glass—and it resembles an 80-year-old sketch  

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• 01:07 ScienceShot: How a Restaurant Menu Is Like a Book

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  Customers don't focus on "sweet spots," according to eye-tracking study  

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• 00:00 Human Brains Wire Up Slowly but Surely

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  Unprecedented comparison of chimp and monkey brain genes to our own reveals drastic differences  

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• WEDNESDAY 1. FEBRUARY, 2012
• 22:35 Theoretical Physics Center Opens in Brazil

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  SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL—A new center for theoretical physics opens in Brazil next week, with...  

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• 22:34 Live Chat: Peak Oil—Is the Well Running Dry?

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  How long before the world starts running short of oil? Have we hit the peak...  

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• 20:00 Massage's Mystery Mechanism Unmasked

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  Hands-on therapy turns genes on (and off) for better healing  

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• 19:00 How to Build a Hardy Web

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  Unusual mechanical behavior in single strands of spider silk makes for a heavy-duty trap  

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• 18:11 Thousands of Scientists Vow to Boycott Elsevier to Protest Journal Prices

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  A movement to boycott scientific publishing giant Elsevier because of the high price of...  

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• 16:17 Big Storms Roil Even the Deep Ocean

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  Following a major tempest, swift currents carry sand and nutrients to normally tranquil deep-sea habitats  

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