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Phenomenal Felines: Cats Get Their Own Genome! |
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3 | (1) |
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Star Wars 2.0: Death Ray Is Wasting Nearby Galaxy! |
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4 | (1) |
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Brain Pays Price for Torture |
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5 | (1) |
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Missed Your Flight? Blame the Vanishing Leap Second |
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6 | (2) |
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Religious Believers Say ``God Told Us to Kill!'' |
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8 | (1) |
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Fires and Floods: Building in the Path of Disaster |
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9 | (3) |
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Why the Failed Response to Genocide? |
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12 | (3) |
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15 | (16) |
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Bugs Have Promise: Enemies of Fire Ants Make a Home on the Range |
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17 | (1) |
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Animal Calibration: Flight of the Pigeon Shows Off Organic GPS |
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18 | (2) |
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When the Beach Is Busy: More Swimmers=More Disease? |
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20 | (1) |
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Conservation News Flash: Unique Program Puts Money Where Mouth Is! |
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21 | (1) |
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Economics Beat: Some Bright Ideas for Greener Transportation |
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22 | (3) |
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A Concentration of Disadvantage: Poverty Is a Neighborhood Thing |
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25 | (1) |
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Fat City: Could Urban Planning Aid Obesity? |
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26 | (1) |
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The Price of Isolation: In Deadly Heat Waves, Who Dies? |
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27 | (1) |
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Don't Know Much Biology. Neither Do My Kids |
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28 | (1) |
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Vegas Nightmare: Could Poker Make You Sick? |
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29 | (2) |
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31 | (14) |
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Brave New Marketing: Are the Eyes the Window to Your Wallet? |
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33 | (1) |
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Retaining Workers: Why Do Wage Slaves Come Back for More Punishment? |
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34 | (1) |
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Make a Watt, Make a Million! Inventors Flock to the Challenge of Green Electricity |
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35 | (3) |
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Solar Cells with a 3D Attitude! |
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35 | (1) |
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Sound Source of Electricity: Waste Heat |
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36 | (1) |
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Hydrogen: Electricity's Best Friend |
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37 | (1) |
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Smiley-Face Breakthrough: Stop Presses! Misery Is Miserable, but Smiles Sell! |
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38 | (1) |
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Nanoworld: Big Profits Beckon in Tiny World |
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39 | (2) |
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39 | (1) |
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Shrimpy but Beefy! Nanotubes Reach the Market |
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40 | (1) |
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Patenting Life: How Wise? A Conversation on Medical Ethics |
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41 | (4) |
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45 | (10) |
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Racehorses: Butt Is Big, but Big Butt Is Good Butt |
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47 | (1) |
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Straight Talk on the Curveball |
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48 | (1) |
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Overexercising: Worked Up Over Working Out? |
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49 | (1) |
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Teams Without Coaches? Honeybees Set the Pace! |
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50 | (2) |
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Move Over, Dog Paddle: Time for the Dino Paddle! |
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52 | (1) |
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The Sport Cheat's Bible (Book Review) |
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53 | (2) |
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55 | (14) |
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Beachy: The Science of Sand Castles |
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57 | (1) |
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Grab Your Hanky. Tearjerker Ahoy! |
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58 | (1) |
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The Ghost with the Most: Spooks from Greek and Roman Times |
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59 | (2) |
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61 | (1) |
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Can You Hear Me Now? Understanding the Perfect Auditorium |
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62 | (2) |
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Linking Music and Literature |
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64 | (1) |
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Scribble, Scrabble: How Was Writing Invented? |
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65 | (1) |
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The Telltale Sounds of Silence |
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66 | (2) |
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This Is Your Brain on Jazz |
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68 | (1) |
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69 | (10) |
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Got a Beef with Grilled Beef? Herbs Cut Cancer-Causing Compounds |
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71 | (1) |
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Organic Farm: Garden of Plenty? |
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72 | (1) |
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Fat: The Good and the Ugly |
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73 | (2) |
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The Eyes: Gateway to Gluttony? |
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75 | (2) |
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Crabs Found Hoarding Seafood! |
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77 | (2) |
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79 | (10) |
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Brains: Good for Everything---Except Getting Rich? |
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81 | (1) |
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82 | (1) |
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Are Diamonds Forever? Is Something the Matter with Matter? |
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83 | (1) |
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The Mammoth's Mane: Haute Couture on Ice |
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84 | (2) |
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The Rodent and Its Pals: The Genes of the Gregarious Mouse |
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86 | (1) |
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Videophilia: Nature Substitute Is---No Substitute! |
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87 | (2) |
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89 | (14) |
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The Fruit Fly Prescription for a Healthy Snooze |
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91 | (1) |
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Mending This Broken Heart: Could a Companion Help? |
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91 | (2) |
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Malaria: Could the Mosquito Be Our Best Friend? |
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93 | (1) |
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Urine: Oldest Fount of Science? |
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94 | (1) |
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The Plastic Fantastic Brain |
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95 | (3) |
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Embryonic Stem-Cell Breakthrough Skips the Embryo! |
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98 | (2) |
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Obesity Vaccine on the Horizon |
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100 | (1) |
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Gut Instinct: Bacteria in Your Guts Are Your Best Friend |
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101 | (2) |
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103 | (10) |
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Meet the Dino-Vactrat: Miracle Carpet Cleaner Has Ancient Heritage |
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105 | (1) |
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Hello, Network, Farewell Privacy: Leaving Evidence in All the Wrong Places |
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106 | (2) |
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Marriage Provides Shelter from the (Electrical) Strom |
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108 | (1) |
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Is the Cure Worse Than the Disease? Oil Dispersant Toxic to Coral Reef |
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109 | (1) |
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Avian Flu Threat: A Medicine in Mushrooms? |
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110 | (3) |
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113 | (10) |
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Hang Glider Solution: How Did the World's Largest Bird Get Aloft? |
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115 | (1) |
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Back to the Moon! But What Is the Real Goal? |
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116 | (2) |
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Walk Like a Man? Robots Inspired by Biology |
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118 | (2) |
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Going, Going, Gone: No Snows of Kilimanjaro |
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120 | (3) |
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123 | (14) |
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Ultimate Leaf Blower: Meet the Hurricane-on-Wheels |
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125 | (1) |
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One-More-Worry Department: Global Warming: Boon to Poison Ivy? |
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126 | (1) |
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Warming in the West = Fire in the West? |
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127 | (2) |
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Squeezing Water from Thin Air! |
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129 | (1) |
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Hurricanes Getting Hot, Getting Horrid? |
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129 | (2) |
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131 | (1) |
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What Do Ice Cores Say About Climates Past and Future? |
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132 | (2) |
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If You Whine About Weather, Steer Clear of THIS Planet! |
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134 | (1) |
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Ice-Fishing: Survival of the Anti-Freezest |
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135 | (2) |
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137 | (14) |
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Zap-No-More: Designing a Better Bug Trap |
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139 | (1) |
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Building in the Fire Zone: How Safe Is Your Home? |
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140 | (1) |
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Shelter from the Killer Waves: Can Trees Protect Against Tsunamis? |
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141 | (1) |
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Original American Cuisine? First Farming Found |
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142 | (2) |
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Eater's Insurance: Doomsday Vault Stores Seeds Against Culinary Calamity |
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144 | (2) |
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Defanging Doggone Pig Perfume |
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146 | (2) |
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Vacuum Cleaner a Futuristic Flea Flicker? |
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148 | (1) |
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Ultimate Klutter-Killer Found in Space! |
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148 | (3) |
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151 | (12) |
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Auto Show Update: Incredible Shrinking Car Stretches Material Supply! |
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153 | (1) |
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Million-Year Cleanup Begins After Monster Pileup! |
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154 | (2) |
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Crashing While Blabbing: Is Cell-Yak-Driving Safe? |
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156 | (2) |
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Where Does the Energy in Gasoline Come From, and Where Does It Go? |
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158 | (1) |
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Why Can't Asphalt Roads Last Forever? |
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159 | (1) |
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Meet the Plug-In Hybrid: Can Engineers Pimp Our Ride and Fix Our Climate? |
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160 | (3) |
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163 | (12) |
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This Is Your Brain on Sarcasm |
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165 | (1) |
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In Newborns, Does Familiarity Breed Contentment? |
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166 | (1) |
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Culture of the Face: Do the Eyes Have It? |
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167 | (1) |
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Konstant Kvetching: Not All It's Cracked Up to Be |
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168 | (1) |
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Matching Mates: Evolutionary Lessons from Speed Dating |
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169 | (2) |
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The Mating Game: Advice for the Lovelorn from the Animal Kingdom |
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171 | (2) |
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Marital Money Shocker: Your Attitude or Your Money! |
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173 | (2) |
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175 | (14) |
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Curiosity and Science Go Together Like Stars and Stripes? |
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177 | (1) |
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AIDS Numbers Prove Public Health Works |
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178 | (1) |
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Warning: Devolution at Work |
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179 | (3) |
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Nanoquestions or Nanononsense? |
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182 | (1) |
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Needed Now: A Manhattan Energy Project! |
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183 | (3) |
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Stem-Cell Advance: Victory for Science, or for Ethics Overregulation? |
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186 | (3) |
| Acknowledgments |
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189 | (1) |
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