Science, July 11, 2008

Steering Harvard Toward Collaborative Science
Provost Steven Hyman is at the forefront of the university's dramatic push to transform the way it carries out research.

Bipolar Disorder: Poles Apart
The number of children
and adolescents diagnosed with bipolar disorder has been rising
sharply, prompting debate and research on how the illness should be
characterized in young people.

Modernizing the Modern Synthesis
70 years ago,
evolutionary biologists hammered out the modern synthesis to bring
Darwin's ideas in line with current insights into how organisms change
through time. Some say it's time for Modern Synthesis 2.0.

Source Analysis of the Crandall Canyon, Utah, Mine Collapse
The
anomalous seismic event in Utah on 6 August 2007 was produced by the
collapse of a mine chamber 1 kilometer beneath the surface, which
induced faulting of rocks above it.

Supernova Shock Breakout from a Red Supergiant
A
burst of ultraviolet light reveals the initial expansion of a star
leading to a supernova and identifies the star as a red supergiant.

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