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  1. Earth

    E-Waste Hazards: Chinese gear recyclers absorb toxic chemicals

    People who live in an area of China where electronic devices are dismantled and recycled, as well as villagers 50 kilometers away, have high concentrations of flame retardants in their blood.

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  2. Ecosystems

    Sea Change: People have affected what penguins eat

    Adélie penguins in Antarctica significantly changed their eating habits about 200 years ago, after whaling and other human activities transformed the ocean ecosystem.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Tumor Suicide: Gene therapy makes cancer cells self-destruct

    Microscopic bubbles of fat that deliver a suicide gene to tumor cells show success in treating pancreatic cancer in mice.

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  4. Anemone reveals complex past

    The starlet sea anemone, a primitive creature with ancient evolutionary roots, has a surprisingly complex genome.

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  5. Adding to nature’s repertoire

    Modified mouse cells make proteins that include synthetic amino acids in addition to the 20 natural ones.

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  6. Tech

    More bang for the biofuel buck

    Microbes that ferment glycerol to ethanol could add an economically valuable new ingredient to the biofuel industry.

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  7. Earth

    As the last ice age waned, a great lake was born

    Lake Agassiz, a huge and now vanished freshwater lake, formed almost 14,000 years ago, toward the end of the last ice age.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Hepatitis B drug creates HIV resistance

    A hepatitis B drug spurs resistance to HIV drugs in people infected with both diseases.

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  9. Chemistry

    Gooey solution to a sticky problem

    A new, gooey, and potentially useful protein has been extracted from the bodies of jellyfish that overpopulate the seas around Japan.

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  10. Planetary Science

    Dust delays Martian rover

    A dust storm has delayed the descent of the Mars rover Opportunity into Victoria crater.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Mouse method turns skin cells to stem cells

    Reprogrammed mouse skin cells that act as stem cells may offer an alternative for research involving embryos.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Spermicide Flip Side: Compound may promote papillomavirus infection

    The widely used spermicide nonoxynol-9 may boost the infectiousness of human papillomavirus, mouse tests show.

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