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Hormones give lantern sharks the glow
Study is first to find chemicals, rather than nerve cells, controlling bioluminescence
Jérôme Mallefet
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Found in: Genes & Cells, Life and Molecules
Bacteria flourish in favorite ecosystems on the human body
Study offers most comprehensive inventory yet of the human microbiome and a basis for understanding how those microbes affect health

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Found in: Body & Brain and Genes & Cells
Horse genome added to growing list of barnyard genetics projects
Shedding new light on chromosome structures, equines join pigs and cucumbers on roster of organisms to have DNA code spelled out letter by letter
Science/AAAS
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Found in: Genes & Cells
Newborn babies may cry in their mother tongues
Days after birth, French and German infants wail to the melodic structure of their languages
K. Wermke
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Found in: Humans and Psychology

Quakes far from tectonic plate boundaries may simply be aftershocks of ancient temblors

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Found in: Earth and Earth Science

World-renowned ice caps may disappear by the 2020s
Thompson et al./PNAS 2009
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Found in: Climate Change, Earth and Earth Science

By detecting gamma rays, a new generation of telescopes bolsters theory that supernovas are origin of some cosmic rays
V.A. Acciari/CFA
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Found in: Atom & Cosmos

Study in an ER shows individuals successfully determined their own HIV status

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Found in: Biomedicine and Science & Society

Colorful birds possibly raised for ceremonial and trade purposes long before Spanish arrival
A. Somerville
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Found in: Anthropology, Archaeology and Humans

More news from the Society for Neuroscience meeting
Stowasser, et. al
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