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This Week's News | May 4, 2008

In the aftermath
After a fire rages through a forest, what’s left is charcoal, which can remain in the soil for centuries, even millennia.

Down with the transistor: New component could radically transform computer chips
After going unchallenged for decades, the transistor’s supremacy could come to an end.

Twee Twee Tweetle
Songbird chicks’ version of baby talk doesn’t come from an immature version of the grown-up brain’s song pathway.

Leaf clippings as protein factories
New technique could produce proteins without genetically engineering whole plants
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