Top news for December 21, 2008

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A simple monthly injection allows mice to live 25% longer and free from diseases

Six million people at risk from extreme heat in England, campaign group warns

Sea temperatures around Japan at their highest level since 1982

The Galactic Pulse: Pulsar Timing Arrays Detect Long-Period Gravitational Waves

Extreme heat may be crucial factor in human spread of bird flu

New Study Links Anxiety in Young Women to Brain Chemical Imbalance

Dartmouth Scientists Have Created a New Template of the Human Brain

Gaia spacecraft almost doomed by back-to-back meteor strike and solar storm — but ESA says they've found a solution

Decoding Titan’s Hydrocarbon Seas: Cassini’s Latest Radar Revelations on Saturn’s Largest Moon

“This Had Never Been Done Before” – New Dual-Use Catalyst Overcomes the Thermodynamic Canyon