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  1. Life

    Carried aloft, tiny creatures avoid parasites, sex

    Dry and blowing in the breeze, rotifers are safe from a deadly fungus — and perhaps from the vulnerabilities presumed to accompany asexual reproduction.

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  2. Book Review: Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives by Annie Murphy Paul

    Review by Bruce Bower.

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  3. Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It’s So Hard to Think Straight About Animals by Hal Herzog

    Review by Susan Milius.

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  4. Book Review: The Natural Navigator: A Watchful Explorer’s Guide to a Nearly Forgotten Skill by Tristan Gooley

    Review by Sid Perkins.

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  5. BOOK REVIEW: The Geek Dad Book for Aspiring Mad Scientists: The Coolest Experiments and Projects for Science Fairs and Family Fun by Ken Denmead

    Review by Allison Bohac.

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  6. Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep by David K. Randall

    A journalist with unusual sleep habits seeks to learn why we slumber and how sleeping — or not — affects thoughts, behavior and health. W.W. Norton & Co., 2012, 290 p., $25.95

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  7. Humans

    Homo Mysterious

    Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature by David P. Barash.

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  8. Chemistry

    A Tale of Seven Elements

    Eric Scerri's book tells the story of filling in the periodic table of the elements.

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  9. Humans

    How We Do It

    The Evolution and Future of Human Reproduction by Robert Martin.

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  10. Tech

    Virus has the Midas touch

    Researchers have recruited a stringlike virus to carry nanoscale loads of gold that could serve as imaging agents in cancer diagnosis.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Mouth cancer data faked, journal says

    A study by a Norwegian researcher claiming that anti-inflammatory drugs reduce the risk of mouth cancer in smokers was based on faked data.

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  12. Humans

    Changing Priorities: Bush initiative shifts science-budget funds

    President Bush's proposed fiscal year 2007 budget would keep overall research and development spending at approximately current levels.

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