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  1. Paleontology

    Forget bird-brained

    Scientists have uncovered a new dinosaur that breathed like a bird.

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  2. Life

    Curtain drops after ants’ final act

    A handful of ants remain outside to close the colony door at sunset and sacrifice their lives in the act.

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  3. Largest known prime number found

    Featured Math Trek column: The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, a cooperative computing project, helps find a prime that has nearly 13 million digits.

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  4. Space

    With a twinkle, pulsating stars could deliver signals from E.T.

    Neutrino beams may turn Cepheids into messengers for advanced alien civilizations.

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  5. Space

    Galaxies on the move

    Scientists discover "dark flow" -- the unexplained streaming of galactic clusters across the universe.