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| Energy & Sustainability
Rocks on a remote Norwegian island in the Arctic Ocean may offer fresh insights into previous worldwide climate change episodes
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Sarah Simpson
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13 hours ago
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Slide Shows
| Evolution
The animal kingdom contains all manner of visual organs
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The Editors
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Jun 27, 2011 |
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| Technology
Cyber security threats to critical infrastructure are not just theoretical
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Francie Diep
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Jun 20, 2011 |
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| More Science
What other species' padres should we be saluting this Father's Day?
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Katherine Harmon
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Jun 16, 2011 |
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| Health
Researchers are learning much more about how Anopheles gambiae, the primary malaria mosquito, uses its smell organs to find human targets; the work involved stunning images from scanning electron microscopes
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Mark Fischetti
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Jun 15, 2011 |
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| Evolution
Researchers were stunned to find an 18th-century ship that had been unearthed by construction workers at the World Trade Center where the Twin Towers once stood. With great care they followed clues in the well-preserved wood to trace the craft's history to the era of the American Revolution
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Lynne Peeples
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Jun 10, 2011 |
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| Mind & Brain
By
Dawn Stover
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Jun 2, 2011
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| More Science
The insects, making a comeback around the globe, cannot fly and are really not interested in hanging out on your body--but they do occasionally bite during the day
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Megan Scudellari
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May 27, 2011 |
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| Evolution
Take a look at the animals that researchers have sighted or captured while in the field to study a contagious cancer that is destroying Tasmanian devil populations
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Ricki Rusting
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May 23, 2011 |
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| Evolution
Lice lineages began to split and diversify during the late Cretaceous, when dinosaurs, birds and early mammals probably were on the resilient parasites' menus
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Brian Switek
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May 17, 2011 |
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| Space
Space shuttle Endeavour, the replacement for the doomed Challenger, set off on its final mission May 16
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The Editors
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May 16, 2011 |