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- Silk: Mimicking how spiders make their complex array of silks could usher in a tapestry of new materials, and other animals or plants could be designed to be the producers
- Itch: Scientists trace a new path behind the maddening, unrelenting, screaming desire to scratch
- Half-life (more or less): Physicists are stirred by claims that the sun may change what’s unchangeable—the rate of radioactive decay
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Rows of images show an English speaker (top) and a Turkish speaker (bottom) using gestures to describe a scene in which they saw a captain swinging a pail. The English speaker conveys the captain by making a gesture for his cap; the Turkish speaker does so by pointing at a picture of the captain.
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