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  1. Materials Science

    Droplets string themselves together

    Under the right conditions, mixing two incompatible polymers can produce drops that organize themselves into strings.

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  2. Paleontology

    Did ancient superbees squash diversity?

    The recent discovery of several dozen extinct bee species in ancient amber deposits has led one paleontologist to propose that the very success of some bees' social lifestyle led to today's dearth of hive-dwelling species.

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  3. Weakling Ants Cheat by Pruning the Trees

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  4. Science News of the Year 2001

    A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the year 2001.

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  5. Biology

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  6. Even Ants Suffer Superpests in Big Farms

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  7. A More Perfect Union

    Forsaking life in the outside world, endosymbiotic bacteria of some insects traded freedom and nutrients for life inside a cell.

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  8. Farmer Ants Have Bacterial Farmhands

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  9. Science News Books

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  10. Isn’t It a Bloomin’ Crime?

    Darwin called them felons, those creatures that take nectar without pollinating anything, but some modern scientists are reopening the case.

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  11. Tech

    Hop . . . Hop . . . Hopbots!

    Two prototype jumping robots that hop, crash-and-land, and then hop again are demonstrating a novel mobility concept that may finally enable small, cheap robots to roam widely over rough terrain.

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  12. Old MacDonald Was an Ant

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