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  1. Humans

    From the October 4, 1930, issue

    alt=”Click to view larger image”> BORNEO MONKEYS IMITATE MEN WITH BOTH NOSE AND VOICE One of nature’s most striking living caricatures is the proboscis monkey that lives in the deep forests of Borneo. A group of these creatures shown as they appear in their home among the branches of a pongyet tree is on exhibition […]

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Full-Length Pregnancy: Progesterone product may reduce premature births

    A drug related to the female hormone progesterone helps some pregnant women who are prone to premature birth extend their pregnancies.

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  3. Paleontology

    Rain Forest Primeval? Colorado fossils show unexpected diversity

    The size, shape, and riotous variety of fossil leaves unearthed at a site in central Colorado suggest that the region may have been covered with one of the world's first tropical rain forests just 1.4 million years after the demise of the dinosaurs.

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  4. Raising Trust

    Some forager groups may nurture a sharing sense in their offspring.

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  5. Earth

    A Dam Shame? Project may slam China’s biodiversity

    When the Three Gorges Dam begins to impound the waters of the Yangtze River in China later this year, dozens of mountains and other elevated areas upstream will become islands—an outcome that will probably devastate the rich diversity of species now living along the river.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Flawed Therapy: Hormone replacement takes more hits

    Elderly women taking estrogen and progestin are more likely to develop dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, and stroke than are women not taking the hormones.

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  7. Materials Science

    Melt-Resistant Metals: Carbon coating keeps atoms in order

    Shrink-wrapped in carbon, nanoscale metal chunks melt at extraordinarily high temperatures, suggesting carbon coatings as a route to higher heat resistance for materials and devices.

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  8. Plants

    Team corners culprit in sudden oak death

    After 5 years of mystery, California pathologists announced they may have identified the cause of a new tree disease called sudden oak death.

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  9. Chemistry

    Heat spurs growth of tiny carbon trees

    Microscopic carbon forests can grow on a graphite surface without the help of catalysts.

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  10. Earth

    The Fires Below

    Underground coal fires help shape the landscape on many scales and in many ways, some transient and some long-lasting.

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  11. Earth

    Wildfire Below: Smoldering peat disgorges huge volumes of carbon

    Set alight by wildfires, thick beds of decaying tropical plant matter can pump massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, rivaling those produced globally each year from the combustion of fossil fuels.

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  12. Earth

    Killer Crater: Shuttle-borne radar detects remnant of dino-killing impact

    Radar images gathered during a flight of the space shuttle Endeavour 3 years ago show the subtle topography related to the impact of an asteroid or comet that may have wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

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