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      Updates, November 2007

      Cosmic Radiation Smoking and Genes Shrubs 1, Grasses 0 Corona Heat

      • By Philip Yam on November 1, 2007
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      This article was originally published with the title "Updates" in Scientific American 297, 5, 16 (November 2007)

      doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1107-16

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        Philip Yam is the managing editor of ScientificAmerican.com, responsible for the overall news content online. He began working at the magazine in 1989, first as a copyeditor and then as a features editor specializing in physics. He is the author of The Pathological Protein: Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting and Other Prion Diseases. Follow Philip Yam on Twitter

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