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  1. Humans

    From the May 30, 1936, issue

    A shaking mountain, a warm blood factory, and signaling with invisible heat rays.

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  2. Archaeology

    Stones of Contention: Tiny Homo species tied to ancient tool tradition

    Controversial new discoveries suggest that our half-size evolutionary cousins who lived on the Indonesian island of Flores as recently as 12,000 years ago carried on a stone-toolmaking tradition passed down from the island's original colonizers more than 700,000 years ago.

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  3. Humans

    Letters from the June 3, 2006, issue of Science News

    Latitude adjustments “Shafts of snow sculpted by sun” (SN: 4/1/06, p. 206) doesn’t say that penitentes appear only in the Andes, nor does it say in what part of the Andes they appear. Does the formation of penitentes require that the sun be nearly directly overhead for part of the day? Can penitentes form only […]

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  4. Health & Medicine

    At iconic Asian temple, monkeys harbor viruses

    Temple sites in South and Southeast Asia that offer refuge to monkeys also shelter monkey viruses.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Common drugs offer some hot flash relief

    Antidepressants and some other prescription drugs reduce the number of hot flashes that many women experience during menopause.

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  6. Archaeology

    Jarring clues to Tut’s white wine

    Chemical analyses of residue from jars found in King Tutankhamen's tomb have yielded the first evidence of white wine in ancient Egypt.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Blood, Iron, and Gray Hair

    Recent findings show that anemia is exceedingly common in elderly people and link the condition to severe health problems, including accelerated physical and mental decline and a shorter life span.

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  8. Humans

    Letters from the May 27, 2006, issue of Science News

    Dig it or don’t I am rather surprised at all the attention this find is getting (“Out of the Shadows: Not all early mammals were shy and retiring,” SN: 3/18/06, p. 173). Some would think that these mammals caused the downfall of the dinosaurs, but the fossil record suggests a very different scenario. There is […]

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  9. Humans

    From the May 23, 1936, issue

    A queen worthy of the sea.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    For the Birds: New vaccines protect chickens from avian flu

    By piggybacking components of strains of avian-influenza virus onto an existing poultry vaccine, scientists have created experimental vaccines that can prevent bird flu in chickens.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Open Water, Open Mouths: Scuba divers face infection risks

    A new study takes a stab at quantifying the risks that waterborne bacteria and viruses pose to scuba divers.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Prescription stimulants are big on campus

    Nearly 1 in 10 students at a New England college admits to using prescription stimulants without authorization.

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