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  1. Faces elicit strong emotions in autism

    Children with autism avoid eye contact because they experience uncomfortably intense emotional reactions when looking at faces.

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  2. Infectious Evolution: Ancient virus hit apes, not our ancestors, in the genes

    A potentially deadly infection wormed its way into the DNA of ancestral chimpanzees and gorillas between 4 million and 3 million years ago, thus altering the evolution of these African apes while keeping clear of human ancestors on that same continent.

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  3. Planetary Science

    Martian Landscaping: Spacecraft eyes evidence of a frozen sea

    After analyzing images taken by the orbiting Mars Express spacecraft, researchers reported that a flat region near the Red Planet's equator holds a frozen ocean that was once the size of the North Sea.