Top news for December 21, 2008

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Do school-based interventions help improve reading and math in at-risk children?

A Novel Effort to See How Poverty Affects Young Brains

“Chemical Fingerprint” of First Transiting Exoplanet Reveals Its Distant Birthplace

Junctions between three cells serve as gateways for the transport of substances

Long-Awaited Muon Measurement Boosts Evidence for New Physics

Something Is Killing Trees, Creating 'Ghost Forests' Along The Atlantic Coast

Scientists harness chaos to protect devices from hackers

Eucalyptus trees can be genetically modified not to invade native ecosystems

Muon magnetism could hint at a breakdown of physics’ standard model

Designing selective membranes for batteries using a drug discovery toolbox