Top news for December 21, 2008

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Earth’s Mantle Provides New Clues To Explain Indonesia’s Explosive Volcanoes

Wildfires Threaten Urban Water Supplies, Long After the Flames Are Out

Earth is trapping twice as much heat as it did in 2005

Many cancer patients may need a sequential one-two punch of immunotherapies

Antarctic Circumpolar Current flows more rapidly in warm phases

NASA spacecraft spots China's Mars rover Zhurong heading south on Red Planet (photo)

Newly sequenced genome of extinct giant lemur sheds light on animal's biology

Study suggests scientists may need to rethink which genes control aging

Streptococcus pneumoniae sticks to dying lung cells, worsening secondary infection following flu