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Beatriz Barbuy, a Brazilian astrophysicist who has made a major contribution to the study of the evolution of the chemical composition of stars, and Roddam Narasimha, an Indian engineer and physicist whose work in fluid dynamics has increased understanding of turbulence, have been awarded the 2008 Trieste Science Prize.

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Summaries of newsworthy papers include Thwarting tumour invasion, Glacier acceleration through subsurface ocean warming, Complement enhances tumour evasion, Groundwater levels determine land response to climate and A century of artificial nitrogen fertiliser

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Scientists use a theory that exists in higher dimensions to better understand the process by which a neutron decays into a proton

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Study obtains protein structures more efficiently using a combination of techniques

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New man-made materials could produce unique chaotic motion in electron beams

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