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December 1, 2006

Our special birthday show! A louse killer that's evolution-proof, what comes after Hubble, the universality of color, listening to icebergs, and how …

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November 17, 2006

Whiskers could help robots feel, how bee brains are like human brains, a genetic disorder with musical gifts, how a storm at the North Pole damaged an …

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November 10, 2006

How wool is made washable, the earliest horse corral, a parasite that prefers baby boys, a medical robot snail, and how solar flares can affect GPS.

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November 3, 2006

Kids on caffeine, prairie dogs in love, trading shoelace tags for gold in 15th century Cuba, how aspirin shrinks tumors, and a boy who can play video …

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October 27, 2006

Cycles in the Earth's orbit and tilt may cause extinctions, what got the Oracle of Delphi high, why farming salmon hurts their wild cousins, the …

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October 20, 2006

The truth about star naming, a practical plan for getting rid of fossil fuels, imitating gecko feet, worms in your diet, and why we have a bias …

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October 13, 2006

A fabric that detects biohazards, an excess of men, the cost of a year of life, stopping train derailments with lasers, and the rising number of …

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October 6, 2006

Why caffeine withdrawal hurts, washing help relieve guilt, closing the racial achievement gap in schools, the benign origins of some nasty pathogens, …

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September 29, 2006

A good time to be a dinosaur hunter, how your personality affects your health, electricity could heal wounds, plastics made from DNA, and the fastest …

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September 22, 2006

Underwater noise pollution, genes for alcoholism, PCBs may compromise vaccines, proof of dark matter, and uvulas in animals.

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September 15, 2006

Music composed by a volcano, how quickly we judge others, wildfires release mercury, good news about recovering from stroke and heart attacks, and a …

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September 8, 2006

The better way to commute, resetting your internal food clock, why we don't remember our dreams, fungi that live in plants, and the problem with some …

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September 1, 2006

The world's sharpest needle, a cancer treatment from a war paint plant, how men are like dogs, an outdoor greenhouse, and your brain's reaction to …

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August 25, 2006

The mosquito's love song, putting highway surveillance cameras to a medical use, behind the obesity vaccine, 9/11 rescue workers' lungs, and the …

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August 18, 2006

Testing the age of your organs, the reliability of home genetic tests, a medical use for radioactive scorpion venom, global warming may be …

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August 11, 2006

Cars that communicate with each other, reasons to get rid of the penny, improving the information in video games, chubby hamsters help with obesity …

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August 4, 2006

An evolutionary reason for morning sickness, fibers that act as eyes, a South American culture that puts the past ahead, Wal-Mart's economic impact, …

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July 28, 2006

A computer counselor for teenage girls, how apples help cells, what came before the Big Bang, carbon dioxide in our oceans, and what firefly flashes …

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July 21, 2006

How humpbacks size up a school of fish, a marine tracking network, replacement retinas that work like the real thing, a sniper-detecting robot, and …

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July 14, 2006

Eggs that can run away, a slobber stress test for babies, humans' speedy emotional rebounds, an international congress of dirt, and where dinosaurs …

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July 7, 2006

How to end offensive sports chants, a coal-based jet fuel, how a love hormone softens marital spats, why poor people are more likely to be obese, and …

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June 30, 2006

An ancient astronomical record, chewing gum that fights cancer, a new way to weigh the elderly, the shifting jet streams, and how killer whales use …

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June 23, 2006

Deciphering horses' whinnies, how apes plan ahead, the science of Harry Potter's invisibility cloak, getting really mad over little things, and …

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June 16, 2006

Music could help treat Parkinson's, new ways to probe for underground bacteria, a handy test for caffeine, stress in pregnancy may be good, and an …

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