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  1. Health & Medicine

    A drink a day might keep fuzzy thinking away

    One alcoholic drink per day can stave off mental decline in elderly women.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Humans

    The Heights of School Science: Select student research rises to the top

    Forty high school students have each earned a slot in the final round of the 2005 Intel Science Talent Search.

    By Ben Harder
  3. Chemistry

    Hungry for Hydrogen: Microbes in hot springs feed on unlikely source

    Microbes dwelling in Yellowstone National Park's hot springs draw their energy not from sulfur but from hydrogen.

    By Alexandra Goho
  4. Plants

    In a Snap: Leaf geometry drives Venus flytrap’s bite

    Behind a Venus flytrap's rapid snap lies an extraordinary shape-changing mechanism.