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  1. Brain cells work together to pay attention

    Cells in the brain's cortex may coordinate their electrical activity as attention shifts from visual to tactile information.

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  2. Anthropology

    The Ultimate Colonists

    Human ancestors managed to adjust to life in a variety of ecosystems during the Stone Age, indicating that their social lives were more complex than they've often been given credit for.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Domestic Disease: Exotic pets bring pathogens home

    The potentially deadly monkeypox virus has spread from Africa to people in several states via infected pet prairie dogs.

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  4. Anthropology

    Care-Worn Fossils

    A nearly toothless fossil jaw found in France has reignited scientific debate over whether the skeletal remains of physically disabled individuals show that our Stone Age ancestors provided life-saving care to the ill and infirm.

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  5. Troubling Treat: Guam mystery disease from bat entrée?

    A famous unsolved medical puzzle of why a neurological disease spiked on Guam may hinge on the local tradition of serving boiled bat.

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    This article suggests a few other questions. How hungry were the monkeys? And would the student volunteers make the same choices if they were in debt and given the option of splitting $20,000 or $40,000, amounts that would potentially change their lives? If I lose $10, I don’t really feel penniless, and my wife will […]

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  7. Humans

    Undignified Science

    Research advances in 2003 heralded a string of unexpected scientific indignities that will occur in the future, at least in the fevered imagination of one writer.

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  8. Humans

    Undignified Science

    Research advances in 2003 heralded a string of unexpected scientific indignities that will occur in the future, at least in the fevered imagination of one writer.

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  9. Out of China: SARS virus’ genome hints at independent evolution

    The newly identified SARS virus is the product of a long and private evolutionary history, clues from its genome suggest.

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  10. Paleontology

    New fossil weighs in on primate origins

    A 55-million-year-old primate skeleton found in Wyoming indicates that the common ancestor of modern monkeys, apes, and people was built primarily for hanging tightly onto tree branches.

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  11. Paleontology

    New fossil weighs in on primate origins

    A 55-million-year-old primate skeleton found in Wyoming indicates that the common ancestor of modern monkeys, apes, and people was built primarily for hanging tightly onto tree branches.

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  12. Unfertilized monkey eggs make stem cells

    Scientists have for the first time obtained long-lived stem cells from monkey eggs stimulated to undergo parthenogenesis.

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