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- Health & Medicine
The Colorful World of Synesthesia
Science News for Kids explores the sensory explosion that defines the experience of people with this unusual, but not that uncommon nor unwelcome, condition.
- Animals
Built for Speed
Animals would prove fierce competitors at the Olympics — if only they would stay in their lanes.
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The decider
Informing the debate over the reality of ‘free will’ requires learning something about the lateral habenula.
- Earth
Earth: Science news of the year, 2008
Science News writers and editors looked back at the past year's stories and selected a handful as the year's most interesting and important in Earth. Follow hotlinks to the full, original stories.
- Life
Step-by-step Evolution
Hard to find, but very fruitful when found, transitional fossils fill in the gaps in the paleontological record.
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Botanical Whales
Adventures in the Tortugas reveal that seagrass fields need saving too.
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Humans wonder, anybody home?
Brain structure and circuitry offer clues to consciousness in nonmammals.
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Let there be light
New technology illuminates neuronal conversations in the brain
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Dressing up dinos
Adding soft tissue to bone helps scientists, paleoartists bring ancient creatures to life.
- Plants
Losing life’s variety
2010 is the deadline set for reversing declines in biodiversity, but little has been accomplished.
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All Patterns Great and Small
Researchers uncover the origins of creatures’ stripes and spots.
