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  1. Music, language may meet in the brain

    Brain areas considered crucial for understanding language may also play an important role in music perception.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Anthrax Threat

    Anthrax has evolved from a disease that farmers sometimes caught from livestock to a potent biological weapon. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta offers a highly accessible Web site that answers basic questions about transmission, treatment, and prevention of anthrax. The site also provides links to Web pages that explain the biology […]

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  3. From the May 2, 1931, issue

    HOLDER OF PRIESTLY OFFICE CARVED ABOUT 2400 B.C. Good sculptors, those Sumarians who lived in the land around about Ur of the Chaldees 4,000 years ago! This weeks cover picture shows the upper portion of a broken life-sized statue found at the city of Lagash, north of Ur. The features, finely cut, portray a man […]

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  4. Teams find probable gene for sweet sense

    Two labs tasted victory in a race to identify a candidate gene for controlling our proverbial sweet tooth.

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  5. Senior bees up all night caring for larvae

    Honeybees turn out to be the first insect known to change circadian rhythms just because of a social cue, a crisis in the nursery.

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  6. Tech

    New device opens next chapter on E-paper

    Researchers have developed a paperlike plastic that could become the pages of the first electronic books and newspapers.

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  7. Paleontology

    Did fibers and filaments become feathers?

    A variety of filamentary structures on the fossil of a small theropod dinosaur recently found in China may provide new insight into the evolution of feathers.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Novel typhoid vaccine surpasses old ones

    A new vaccine links a sugar molecule found on the surface of the bacterium that causes typhoid fever with a genetically engineered version of the exotoxin protein, which arouses the immune system to churn out antibodies against the bacterium.

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  9. Anthropology

    Peru Holds Oldest New World City

    Construction of massive ceremonial buildings and residential areas at a Peruvian site began 4,000 years ago, making it the earliest known city in the Americas.

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  10. When parents let kids go hungry

    Researchers comparing Northern and Southern birds have confirmed a prediction about parents protecting themselves at their offsprings' expense.

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  11. Weather cycles may drive toad decline

    For the first time, scientists have linked a global climate pattern to a specific mechanism of amphibian decline.

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  12. Worm sperm stimulate ovulation

    A sperm protein for movement also prompts egg maturation and ovulation.

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