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  1. Humans

    Science Service Becomes Society for Science & the Public

    Science Service, founded in 1921 to provide better information to the public about scientific discoveries, is changing its name to Society for Science & the Public, reflecting a renewed mission to advance public engagement in science.

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  2. Earth

    In 2007, Greenland set a melting record

    The duration and extent of ice melt across high-altitude portions of the Greenland ice sheet last year were the highest they've been in recent decades, satellite observations indicate.

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  3. Earth

    No-drive experiment curbs air pollution in Beijing

    Traffic-control measures can significantly reduce urban air pollution, a field study in Beijing this past summer indicates.

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  4. Humans

    An earlier thaw can trim winter logging

    In New Hampshire, the trend toward earlier spring thaws has significantly lowered logging revenues.

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  5. Paleontology

    Struck from above

    Evidence of an extraterrestrial object striking Earth at the height of the last ice age comes from micrometeorites embedded in the tusks of creatures that were grazing the Alaskan tundra when the object burst in the air above.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Keeping metabolic syndrome at bay

    Chromium supplements reduced some of the unhealthy effects of a sedentary lifestyle in rats.

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  7. Milking performance from damaged brains

    A compound found in milk can mitigate damage to people's brains caused by stroke or diseases such as Alzheimer's.

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  8. Earth

    Smog’s heavy impacts

    Being overweight increases the risk that people will develop breathing difficulties after encountering smoggy air.

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  9. Physics

    Tiptoe acrobats get it just right

    Physicists have found that a water-skating insect leaps off the water surface by applying just the right amount of force. With video.

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  10. Humans

    Web Special: Science News Wins Award for Sci-Tech Coverage

    Each week, Science News distills "the latest trends and findings in the ever-expanding world of science into must-know information," according to the editors of the Utne Reader, which named Science News magazine winner of its 2007 Independent Press Award in the science and technology category.

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  11. Humans

    Web Special: Science News Wins Award for Sci-Tech Coverage

    Each week, Science News distills "the latest trends and findings in the ever-expanding world of science into must-know information," according to the editors of the Utne Reader, which named Science News magazine winner of its 2007 Independent Press Awards in the science and technology category.

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  12. Furry Math: Macaques can do sums like people in a hurry

    Macaques and college students showed similarities in performance on a computer test of split-second arithmetic, suggesting a common inheritance of the ability to do approximate math without counting.

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