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  1. Animals

    Lyrebirds dance to their own music

    In mating display, male birds match moves to songs.

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  2. Life

    Bird penises start strong, wither away

    Male chickens lose phalluses before hatching.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Talk therapy helps Congolese victims of sexual violence recover

    Groups sessions using a cognitive processing approach work better than individual support counseling, a study finds.

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  4. Quantum Physics

    Light breaks up to cloak gaps in time

    Method could hide messages without sender’s knowledge.

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  5. Paleontology

    Fossil sheds light on early primates

    Partial skeleton near root of monkey, ape and human line.

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  6. Animals

    Dead, live guppies vie for paternity

    Females can use sperm months after mates go belly up.

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  7. Paleontology

    Lizard king thrived in ancient warm climate

    The herbivorous reptile of 40 million years ago was around 2 meters long.

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  8. Planetary Science

    Thirty years to Mars

    Excerpt from the June 15, 1963, issue of Science News Letter.

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  9. Letters to the editor

    Wet Earth Erin Wayman’s article “Faint young sun” (SN: 5/4/13, p. 30), about how the early Earth stayed warm enough for liquid water, made me wonder about the effect of the temperature of the planet itself. A hotter core, thinner crust, more volcanism — wouldn’t those factors in addition to atmospheric influences affect surface temperature? […]

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  10. Animals

    Frog long thought extinct rediscovered in Israel

    Hula painted frog turns out to be the only surviving member of an extinct genus.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Flu spreads via airborne droplets

    Hand washing goes only so far in retarding flu transmission.

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  12. Humans

    Dietary changes accompanied human evolution

    Hominids moved toward eating grasses and away from tree leaves, according to chemical analyses of fossil tooth enamel.

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