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  1. Health & Medicine

    The Colorful World of Synesthesia

    Science News for Kids explores the sensory explosion that defines the experience of people with this unusual, but not that uncommon nor unwelcome, condition.

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  2. Humans

    Science in the City

    The inaugural World Science Festival kicks off in New York May 28 and features a variety of events celebrating the role of science in all aspects of modern life, culture and the arts.

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  3. Computing

    Scientists Get a 2nd Life

    The virtual world of Second Life offers new ways to do and learn about real science.

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  4. Life

    Epic Genetics – Sidebar

    Epigenetic changes can be undone in some circumstances.

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  5. Life

    Epic Genetics

    The way genes are packaged by "epigenetic" changes may play a major role in the risk of addiction, depression and other mental disorders.

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  6. Earth

    A Feverish World

    What's behind global warming—and is there anything we can do?

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  7. Climate

    Science News for Kids: Polar Ice Feels the Heat

    From glaciers to sea ice, the big melt is on.

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  8. Humans

    Change Without Change

    New clothes for the modern media climate, but no departure from traditional purpose for Science News.

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  9. Environment

    Down with Carbon

    Scientists are exploring strategies for capturing carbon dioxide and storing it safely away in order to limit the levels of that greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.

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  10. Life

    Twin Fates

    Animal and human studies suggest that a girl with a twin brother may never completely escape the influence of her opposite-sex womb-mate.

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  11. Out of Thin Air

    Biologists dream of the day when they could engineer crops to make fertilizer out of the nitrogen in the air.

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  12. All in the Family

    Contrary to popular belief, species of salamanders, birds, beetles and fish prefer to mate with close kin.

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