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April 25, 2008

ALL ABOUT BLOOD: The antimicrobial powers of alligator blood, getting blood from a fruit fly, mental health and blood clotting, and new insights into …

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April 18, 2008

GENETICS & EVOLUTION: Exclusively human genes, transitional fossils, and the history of lefthandedness.

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April 11, 2008

INSECTS & SPIDERS: Spiders play dead for sex, how to make a queen bee, foiling the mosquito's sense of smell, and a new treatment for Lyme …

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April 4, 2008

PREDATORS & PREY: Snakes foil toxic newts, alligators maneuver with their lungs, monkeys sound the alarm and the history of domestic cats.

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March 28, 2008

ENERGY NEWS: Electricity from bacteria, people power, thermoelectricity and what the sun is made of.

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March 21, 2008

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION: New tools for conservation - The Encyclopedia of Life and the Global Seed Vault. Also: Why do zebras have stripes?

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March 14, 2008

Archaeologists dig deep, the mystery of Maya Blue, where your hair has been, and more.

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March 7, 2008

Math & The Brain: The geometry of hallucinations, teaching computers regret, schizophrenia and the brain, and the neural basis of jazz …

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February 29, 2008

What happened to our vitamin C, new insights into childhood leukemia, and why artificial sweeteners make rats fat.

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February 22, 2008

How air pollution could cause heart disease. Global warming may make Antartica vulnerable to predators. "Virtual" children help real …

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February 15, 2008

AAAS 2008 ANNUAL MEETING SPECIAL: Sand spiders use elaborate camouflage, a new interactive map tracks threats to the oceans, and four healthful habits …

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February 1, 2008

Geology Special: glowing diamonds, intermittent plate tectonics and preventing a helium shortage.

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January 25, 2008

Space Research Update: the 11-year solar storm cycle returns, the MESSENGER spacecraft reports back from Mercury, and the search for intelligent life …

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January 18, 2008

Brain Pathways: Why we shiver, blind people who still sense light, and brain chemicals and intelligence.

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January 11, 2008

Animal Sexual Selection: sexy fruit flies have sexy sons, geographical variation in what some female birds find attractive, and dolphins plumb the …

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January 4, 2008

Genes and the Brain: What mice can tell us about cocaine addiction and our ability to tell hot from cold. Plus: could a gene contribute to poor …

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December 28, 2007

Evolution Special: The history of dogs, butterflies vs. cabbages and the world's largest scorpion. Plus: Could there be life two miles beneath …

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December 21, 2007

Hurricane Katrina and global warming, your skin and your health, and advances in prosthetics research

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December 14, 2007

Science or Nonsense? Science confronts alternative medicine and vaccine myths. Also: Can we learn anything from violent video games?

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December 7, 2007

Future Survival: A vaccine for antibacterial-resistant staph infections, future crops use space-age technology, and growing green roofs

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November 30, 2007

Future Technology: Robots for special kids, a molecule-sized radio, and bomb-detecting spray that catches terrorists red-handed.

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November 23, 2007

Mysteries of nature: Why do some leaves turn red in the fall? Global warming and the future of rivers. And the music of DNA.

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November 16, 2007

A snail hides in plain sight. A high-speed continental collision. And what fossils tell us about future extinctions.

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November 9, 2007

When plants heat things up. How dolphins sleep. "Healthy" restaurants that aren't. Army ant groupies. And more.

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