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  1. Earth

    Mapping carbon dioxide from space

    An orbiting observatory in space will sense atmospheric carbon dioxide levels around the globe, creating a detailed map of the greenhouse gas' sources and sinks.

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  2. Math

    Pinpointing Killer Asteroids

    Two award-winning high school students' projects focused on new methods for pinpointing asteroids locations.

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  3. Earth

    Fallen Trees? Scotch pines emit nitrogen oxides into the air

    Northern pine forests may exude nitrogen oxides—a contributor to smog and acid rain—in quantities that rival those produced by industry and traffic worldwide.

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  4. Humans

    From the September 6, 1930, issue

    alt=”Click to view larger image”> LIONS IN ALASKA Alaska, with its vast herds of caribou, its foxes and beaver, its mountain sheep and goats, and its great bears, black, brown, grizzly, and white, is one of the world’s game paradises; but 100,000 years ago, long before the slow-witted men who inhabited Europe thought to follow […]

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  5. Anthropology

    Monkey Business

    They're pugnacious and clever, and they have complex social lives—but do capuchin monkeys actually exhibit cultural behaviors?

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  6. Earth

    Indonesian reefs fell prey to fires

    The fires that swept through Indonesian rain forests late in 1997 apparently laid waste to some marine ecosystems, as well.

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  7. Paleontology

    Northern Extinction: Alaskan horses shrank, then disappeared

    Horses that lived in Alaska shrank dramatically in body size before they went extinct at the end of the last ice age.

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  8. Humans

    Science News of the Year 2004

    A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the year 2004.

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  9. Animals

    Where’d I Put That?

    Birds that hide and recover thousands of separate caches of seeds have become a model for investigating how animals' minds work.

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  10. Anthropology

    The Forager King

    A celebrated anthropologist surprises and inspires his biographer.

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  11. What’s Worth Saving?

    A fracas over a biological term could have huge consequences for conservation.

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  12. Earth

    Ice age forest spruces up ecology record

    Scientists have recently discovered a 10,000-year-old forest buried in the sand in Michigan.

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