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Something unexpected at the North Pole, World Toilet Day and other toilet news, why golf balls have dimples but racecars don't, how a father's pheromones may control his daughter's growth, and using satellites for archaeology in Egypt.
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The mosquito's love song, putting highway surveillance cameras to a medical use, behind the obesity vaccine, 9/11 rescue workers' lungs, and the physics of candy wrappers.
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Cars that communicate with each other, reasons to get rid of the penny, improving the information in video games, chubby hamsters help with obesity research, and why snow is white when water and ice are clear.
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Microbes on Mars, cell phones tracking weather, the relationship between brain size and intelligence, humans controlling sharks and cockroaches, and the pros and cons of having lots of testosterone.
Kids Online
The website MySpace has been in the news a lot recently--and not for good things. But before parents start taking their kids' computers away, one researcher wants them to know that kids can have positive experiences on MySpace, too.
Lying on E-mail
In e-mail, liars use more feeling words, sense words, and more words overall.
Lie Detection
People are equally bad at detecting a lie when it's told face-to-face or by instant messaging.
Phone Fibbing
People are more likely to lie over the phone than in e-mail, instant messaging, or face-to-face.
Elephant Signals
How elephant vocalizations travel through the ground, and can be sensed by other elephants as much as 10 miles away