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  1. Animals

    Crow Tools: Hatched to putter

    The New Caledonian crow is the first vertebrate to be shown definitively to have an innate tendency to make and use tools, according to researchers who doubled as bird nannies.

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  2. Earth

    Living in a Fog: Secondhand smoke may dull kids’ wits

    Millions of U.S. children may have reading deficits because of exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Not to Your Health: New mechanism proposed for alcohol-related tumors

    New findings suggest that alcohol encourages blood vessels to invade tumors, supplying nutrients that promote tumor growth.

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  4. Hands-on Math Insights: Teachers’ mismatched gestures boost learning

    As teachers instruct a child, they typically use their hands as well as their voices, but only certain gestures pack a powerful educational punch.