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- It’s written all over your face: To potential mates, your mug may reveal more than you think
- Team spirit: Working together, bacteria and other microbes can accomplish much more than they can alone. Now scientists hope to harness that ability by engineering their own microbial consortia.
- For a big view of inner Earth, catch a few…Geoneutrinos
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October 15th, 2005
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Fossils of a newly discovered raptor dinosaur species suggest that the reptile's lineage is older and more widespread than previously suspected. (p. 243)
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An experimental vaccine against the virus that causes most cancers of the cervix has passed a test typically needed for regulatory approval. (p. 243)
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In a landmark contest that has spurred advances in robotic-vehicle technology, five driverless racing machines piloted themselves over more than 200 kilometers of rugged desert terrain. (p. 244)
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The heat accompanying a drought and a plague of bark beetles seem to explain the deaths of swathes of piñon pine trees across the Southwest in 2002 and 2003. (p. 244)
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Excavations in an Indonesian cave have yielded more fossils of short, upright creatures that lived as recently as 12,000 years ago. (p. 244)
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This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to three scientists for their work on a versatile strategy for synthesizing all manner of chemical compounds in an environmentally friendly way. (p. 245)
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A drug that functions as concentrated marijuana does may spur the process by which the brain gives birth to new nerve cells. (p. 246)
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Researchers studying food preferences among spiders report finding the first one with a taste for vertebrate blood. (p. 246)
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The fresh water that seeps from continents into coastal waters via submarine springs is a phenomenon that many scientists are just beginning to appreciate, model, and accurately measure. (p. 248)
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Efforts are under way to halt both poaching and inhumane farming of bears to supply bile, an ingredient used in traditional Asian medicine. (p. 250)
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Gorillas that balance on walking sticks and trudge across makeshift bridges have provided the first evidence of tool use among these creatures in the wild. (p. 253)
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Vitamin C may be an effective cancer fighter when taken intravenously in high doses. (p. 253)
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The fungus that causes Dutch elm disease makes an infected tree strengthen its odors, attracting beetles that carry the fungus on to the next tree. (p. 253)
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For the first time, researchers have photographed a living giant squid in the wild. (p. 253)
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The lengthy heat wave and drought that struck Europe in the summer of 2003 stifled the growth of vegetation and thereby reduced the amount of carbon dioxide that the continent's plants extracted from the atmosphere. (p. 254)
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has taken up temporary residence at the Kennedy Space Center, where engineers are doing final testing before the craft begins its 9-year voyage to the outer solar system. (p. 254)
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Scientists have added precision to a patterning technique called microcontact printing. (p. 254)
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