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  1. Paleontology

    Just for Frills?

    The more that paleontologists scrutinize some dinosaurs' plates, frills, and other anatomical oddities, the more they suspect that the rationale behind these features is simply the need to be recognizably different.

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  2. A Slumber Not So Sweet: Loss of brain cells that regulate breathing may cause death during sleep

    Elderly people may die in their sleep because they gradually lose brain cells that control breathing.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    New Carrier: Common tick implicated in spread of fever

    The brown dog tick is capable of spreading the bacterium that causes Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

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  4. Astronomy

    Three’s Company: Asteroid 87 Sylvia and her two moons

    Astronomers have for the first time discovered an asteroid with two moons, an indication that the rock is highly porous.