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• MONDAY 6. FEBRUARY, 2012
• 22:33 Did Easter Islanders Mix It Up With South Americans?

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  Genetic evidence suggests that Polynesians may have mingled with pre-Columbian Native Americans  

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• 22:32 Troubled Cancer Charity Embroiled in Embryonic Stem Cell Debate

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  If dealing with the public relations nightmare over its on-off-on funding of Planned Parenthood wasn't enough, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure cancer charity last week also got entangled, somewhat bizarrely, in the debate over human embryonic stem (ES) cell research.  

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• 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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