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  1. Tech

    Device rids homes of sounds of rap

    Woodpeckers cause millions of dollars of damage to homes and buildings each year, but a battery-operated, sound-activated, spider-shaped device installed beneath a home's eaves can help prevent this avian scourge.

    By Sid Perkins
  2. Health & Medicine

    On a dare, teen advances medical science

    A 16-year-old daredevil inadvertently demonstrated the incubation period of a common roundworm after she swallowed an earthworm that harbored larvae of the parasite.

    By Ben Harder
  3. Animals

    Hairy crab lounges deep in the Pacific

    A newly discovered deep-sea creature has the body of a crab, but with long, fluffy, blonde hair covering its legs.

    By Susan Milius
  4. Astronomy

    Comet Sampler: Fire meets ice

    The first study of comet dust brought to Earth by a spacecraft has revealed several minerals that could have formed only at the fiery temperatures close to the sun or another star.