Top news for December 21, 2008

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Robotic “Third Thumb” Use Can Alter How the Hand Is Represented in the Brain

Red meat intake, poor education linked to colorectal cancer

Compound commonly found in candles lights the way to grid-scale energy storage

Math--and Sleuthing--Helps to Explain Epidemics of the Past

Understanding light-activated proteins in order to improve them

Can the universe learn?

How does time work?

Young orangutans have sex-specific role models

Tiny self-propelling submarines could help clean up toxic waste

An inconstant Hubble constant? U-M research suggests fix to cosmological cornerstone