Top news for December 21, 2008

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The Heart Drug Pelacarsen Fails, Shocking Novartis and Cardiologists

Betelgeuse's atmosphere is becoming spotty and asymmetric—and a nearby companion could be shaping the pattern

Life uses 4 DNA letters. Scientists just made 8 work

Quantum oscillations defy expectations in this exotic material

Webb Telescope Find A New Kind Of Object — A ‘Black Hole Star’

Broken Skeleton Could Be The First Evidence of Medieval Death by Trebuchet

Author Lise Barnéoud on the bizarre and provoking world of microchimerism — when cells from one person live in another, genetically distinct individual

Could life exist on Venus? Peptides survive harsh acid.

How did the Romans build their towering aqueducts?