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  1. Life

    Insulin may be Big Antler hormone

    Extra sensitivity to the hormone in certain developing tissues might give animals their oversized weapons and ornaments.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Earth

    Calm, with an eye on the storm

    Tim Samaras hunts twisters despite the danger.

    By Andrew Bridges

  3. Letters

    Shopping standards shift with age In “When good moods go decisively bad” (SN: 6/16/12, p. 10), researchers assume that their 70-year-old study participants would be as interested as their 20-something counterparts in finding up to 40 prices on 60 products in an Internet shopping exercise. When the septuagenarians fail to choose the cheapest product, the […]

    By Science News

  4. SN Online

    DELETED SCENES BLOG The Higgs boson discovery leaked a day early when SN found a CERN video announcement.