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  Looking for Life in the Multiverse

  Universes with different physical laws might still be habitable

  Alejandro Jenkins and Gilad Perez   | January 1, 2010  | 69

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  How to Cure 1 Billion People?--Defeat Neglected Tropical Diseases

  The poorest people are not only poor. They are also chronically sick, making it harder for them to escape poverty. A new global initiative may break the vicious cycle

  Peter Jay Hotez   | January 1, 2010  | 29

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  The Truth about Nanobacteria

  Once believed to be the smallest pathogens known, nanobacteria have now proved to be something almost as strange. They do play a role in health—just not the one originally thought

  John D. Young and Jan Martel   | January 1, 2010  | 18

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  How Asteroids Built the Continents

  Did asteroid strikes during the earth's youth spawn the earliest fragments of today's landmasses?

  Sarah Simpson   | January 1, 2010  | 11

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  South Asian Threat? Local Nuclear War = Global Suffering

  Worry has focused on the U.S. versus Russia, but a regional nuclear war between India and Pakistan could blot out the sun, starving much of the human race

  Alan Robock and Owen Brian Toon   | January 1, 2010  | 40

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  Gaming for Profits: Real Money from Virtual Worlds

  Online fantasy games enable developing world entrepreneurs to make a living by trading stashes of make-believe gold for hard cash

  Richard Heeks   | January 1, 2010  | 22

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  The Next 20 Years of Microchips: Pushing Performance Boundaries

  Designers are pushing all the boundaries to make integrated circuits smaller, faster and cheaper

  The Editors   | January 1, 2010  | 6