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  1. Neural Shape-Up: Brain anticipates object perception

    A new brain-scan study indicates that so-called higher visual areas predict the structure of incoming visual information and suppress activity in the visual system's entry area to foster object recognition.

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  2. Earth

    More Frog Trouble: Herbicides may emasculate wild males

    New studies of male frogs in the wild link trace exposures to common weed killers with partial sex reversal.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    A hint at a healthful effect of beer

    Beer consumption seems to boost concentrations of vitamin B6 in blood and coincides with lower concentrations of homocysteine, a risk factor for heart disease.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Bats may spread new Malaysian virus

    A Nipah virus outbreak in Malaysia may have started when bats spread disease to pigs.

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  5. Invaders can conquer Africanized bees

    Bees that can take over even an Africanized-bee colony start by conning their nursemaids into giving them royal treatment.

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  6. Buddy power warms tent caterpillars

    Tent caterpillars get more heat and insulation than scientists had expected.

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  7. Family success prompts tit divorces

    For the first time, researchers have shown that bird pairs are more likely to divorce after raising young than after losing a nest of offspring.

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  8. Soy, tea, and cancer benefits

    Animal studies indicate that enriching diets with soy and tea fights cancer better than adding either alone.

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  9. Are some fats more filling?

    Substituting monounsaturated fats for polyunsaturated ones in cooking may hold hunger at bay longer.

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  10. Diabetes drug cures infertility and more

    A common diabetes drug helps treat obesity and cure the infertility associated with polycystic ovary disease—even in people without diabetes.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Sweet news about ginseng

    When taken before or with meals, ginseng appears to help people with diabetes control the normal rise in blood sugar that accompanies eating.

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  12. Another chromosome down, more to go

    Scientists from six countries have completed the sequence of human chromosome 21.

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