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  1. Food for Mars

    Astronauts may have to survive in orbit for months dining on a really limited menu of processed foods and reconstituted beverages served from oh-so-glamorous plastic pouches. Luckily, even the International Space Station can restock its pantry several times a year because these foods are relatively perishable. Which explains the problem NASA faces in planning for really long missions — like a trip to Mars.

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  2. Materials Science

    Physicists observe quantum properties in the world of objects

    A demonstration marries the world of the very small with the everyday, opening new realms for quantum computing and other applications.

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  3. All Patterns Great and Small

    Researchers uncover the origins of creatures’ stripes and spots.

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  4. Life

    A more fearsome saber-toothed cat

    Analyses of fossils reveal that a third, newly recognized type of saber-toothed cat — one that killed by biting large chunks of flesh from its victim instead of biting its neck and slashing the major blood vessels there —roamed the Americas about a million years ago.

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  5. Anthropology

    Partial skeletons may represent new hominid

    Partial skeletons may represent a new hominid species with implications for Homo origins, one researcher claims. But many of his peers disagree.

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  6. Chemistry

    Mothballs deserve respect

    I don’t use mothballs — except sometimes to sprinkle down the burrows of animals excavating tunnels beneath the deck floor of my pergola. It’s the most effective stop-work order for wildlife that I’ve found. But I won’t use these stinky crystals inside my home because they scare me. And those fears appear justified, according to Linda Hall of the California Environmental Protection Agency.

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  7. Humans

    Water, water everywhere

    Sid Perkins uncovers the amazing amount of “hidden water” in many consumer products.

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  8. Anthropology

    Lucy fossil gets jolted upright by Big Man

    Scientists have unearthed a 3.6-million-year-old partial hominid skeleton that may recast the iconic species as humanlike walkers.

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  9. Life

    Do-it-yourself bed-bug detector

    With bed-bug numbers on the rise in North America, researchers test homemade bug finders.

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  10. A Very Improbable Story by Edward Einhorn and Adam Gustavson

    A cat named Odds plays games of probability with a young boy in this children’s book. Charlesbridge, 2008, 32 p., $16.95 A Very Improbable Story by Edward Einhorn and Adam Gustavson

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  11. Physics

    A very special snowball

    The long-predicted ice XV has been spotted in the lab.

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  12. Life

    Molecular Evolution

    Investigating the genetic books of life reveals new details of 'descent with modification' and the forces driving it.

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