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  1. Humans

    Geographic profiling fights disease

    Widely used to snare serial criminals, a forensic method finds application in epidemiology.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    No pain, healthier brain

    When chronic back problems are treated, benefits extend above the neck.

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  3. Life

    Daytime bites for zombie ants

    The living dead of the insect world show an unexplained sense of timing: a surge of strange activity in the a.m. followed by a final death grip at midday.

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  4. Microbial mats may have given early animals breathing room

    Early animals survived poor marine conditions by inhaling oxygen from bacterial "mines" at the bottom of the ocean.