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The dinosaur extinction may have been stinky, carbon emission rates may be worse than was thought, wild wheat plants itself, a cow with naturally skim milk, and what sound sounds like on other planets.
Upper Atmosphere Roundup
A new technology could tap the jet stream for energy.
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Replacing your skeleton with metal, a sniff test for neurological diseases, a decline in baby boy births, how your brain puts on the brakes, and the Robin Hood inside many of us.
Boy Decline
Fewer baby boys are being born. Scientists are looking for the reason.
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The Darfur region has an ancient underground lake, animals navigate with internal compasses, what plants would look like on other planets, why offering too many choices is bad marketing, and why kids have temper tantrums.
Darfur Lake
Satellite imagery may have opened a window of hope for the war-torn Darfur region.
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Deciphering the calls of blue whales, genetic tests for mental conditions, a three-way symbiotic relationship, studying tear film, and the truth about tanning beds.
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The call of a rare bird, marijuana-like brain chemicals, the Earth without a tilt, using measles to fight cancer, and making public aquariums accessible to the blind.
Geology Roundup
Africa's splitting apart, and scientists may have found ancient Ithaca.
Climate and Corals
Climate change is endangering coral reefs around the world.
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Using ultrasound to find expensive wood, how cheese is helping to fight a tree fungus, the connection between prostate cancer and a lack of male sons, the division in your brain, and the secret to a ultra-white beetle.
Pollution and Obesity
Could pollution be a cause of the obesity epidemic?
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How addiction is like hunger, a new therapy that targets a virus's genes, the best math students perform the worst, pollution could contribute to obesity, and new immigrants face color and height biases.
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Where insects go in winter, winged dinosaurs, fish that cannibalize their young, calculating the value of polio vaccinaton, and mining can cause earthquakes.
Man-Made Earthquake
Humans caused the most destructive earthquake in Australia's history.
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Why you're not perfect, sitting up straight could be bad for you, the downfalls of two ancient civilizations coincided with climate change, the study of procrastination, and your useless organs.
Solar Roundup
Despite not having been washed for billions of years, nature stays relatively clean. How?
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Giving blood could be good for you, backpacks are better with bungee cords, taking a census of the air's bacteria, happiness helps ward off colds and flu, genetic engineering protects against mad cow disease
Air Bacteria Census
Scientists are taking stock of all the bacteria that live in the air.
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Exploring the origins of life, a laser-enhanced satellite for monitoring ozone, why cannibalism is in everyone's blood, a spit-test for sleepiness, and whether identical triplets are possible.
Assembling Life
A new technique may help scientists find out more about how life on Earth began.