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  1. Physicists join immune fight

    Principles beyond biology may help explain how the body battles infection.

    By Susan Gaidos
  2. Health & Medicine

    2009 Science News of the Year: Body & Brain

    Numbers of passengers arriving from Mexico in March and April 2008 show which cities would have been most vulnerable to H1N1 transmission. Credit : The New England Journal of Medicine ©2009 H1N1 strikes and spreads Like the years 1957 and 1968, 2009 will be known as a pandemic flu year. The springtime eruption of a […]

    By Science News
  3. Life

    Fossil find sparks debate on primate origins

    A 37-million-year-old jaw suggests the famous fossil Darwinius does not, as had been suggested, fill a gap in human evolution.

    By Bruce Bower
  4. Space

    Taming time travel

    New work is solving paradoxes by making the impossible impossible.

    By Laura Sanders
  5. Life

    Capuchin monkeys choose the right tool for the nut

    New field experiments indicate that wild capuchin monkeys choose the most effective stones for cracking nuts, suggesting deep evolutionary roots for the use of stone tools.

    By Bruce Bower
  6. Health & Medicine

    Existing antibiotic might help keep wraps on AIDS virus

    The acne drug minocycline inhibits HIV activation in infected immune cells, lab tests show.

    By Nathan Seppa
  7. Humans

    Partial skeleton gives ancient hominids a new look

    African hominid fossils, including a partial skeleton, reveal a surprising mix of features suitable for upright walking and tree climbing 4.4 million years ago.

    By Bruce Bower

  8. More than a feeling

    Emotionally evocative, yes, but music goes much deeper.

    By Susan Gaidos
  9. Anthropology

    Humanity’s upright gait may have roots in trees

    A comparison of wrist bones from African apes and monkeys indicates that human ancestors began walking by exploiting the evolutionary legacy of ancient, tree-climbing apes.

    By Bruce Bower
  10. Health & Medicine

    Languages use different parts of brain

    Different areas are active depending how the grammar of a sentence conveys meaning.

    By Lisa Grossman

  11. Accept it: Talk about evolution needs to evolve

    W atch your language! It’s a common message from Eugenie Scott, a physical anthropologist and director of the National Center for Science Education (www.ncseweb.org), an organization dedicated to promoting and defending the teaching of evolution in public schools. Scott recently spoke with Science News writer Susan Milius. So you urge scientists not to say that […]

    By Eugenie Scott
  12. Health & Medicine

    Neurons may function more solo than thought

    Neurons coordinate activity less often than previously thought.

    By Tina Hesman Saey