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  1. Earth

    Beyond the ABC’s: North Atlantic posts record hurricane season

    The 2005 hurricane season in the North Atlantic shattered a number of records, including several that were decades old.

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  2. Humans

    Stem Cell Controversy: Scientist is retracting landmark finding

    A South Korean researcher who claimed to have cloned the first human embryonic stem cell is now asking that some of his published work be retracted.

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  3. Chemistry

    Mixed Message: Pheromone blend sends signal

    The meaning of a chemical message released by male Asian elephants depends on the chemical's total concentration as well as on the balance of the chemical's two forms.

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  4. Animals

    Ant Iron Chefs: Larvae fix dinner but don’t sneak snacks

    Movies of an ant colony show that larvae are the ones that prepare dinner when meat is on the menu. With Video.

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  5. Tech

    Narrow Escape: Sharp nanogutters hustle out wetness

    Nanochannels with sharply tapered edges can dramatically boost fluid flow rates and potentially play a role in improved microchip cooling, fabrics to wick away perspiration, and other uses.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Mixing Vessel: Air pollution helps cholesterol clog arteries

    When paired with a diet high in fat, breathing polluted air on a regular basis accelerates the accumulation of dangerous plaques in arteries.

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  7. Pumping Out Hope: Stem cells secrete brain-preserving protein

    Researchers have turned stem cells into living drug pumps that could eventually treat Parkinson's disease.

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  8. Paleontology

    Mammoth Findings: Asian elephant is closest living kin

    DNA studies suggest that the woolly mammoth is more closely related to the Asian elephant than to the African elephant.

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  9. Earth

    Satellite makes finest map yet of Antarctica

    Using data gathered by a satellite launched almost 3 years ago, scientists have assembled the most comprehensive high-resolution map of Antarctica that's ever been made.

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  10. Counting on technology to count elephants

    Researchers now spend large amounts of time in remote areas to count and monitor the movements of large animals such as elephants, but in the future they may use seismic instruments to do the job.

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  11. Earth

    Where steel-belted radials go to die

    A new technique for analyzing satellite images may enable researchers to easily identify sites where large numbers of used tires have been dumped.

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  12. Earth

    Ozone hole might not recover until the year 2065

    The ozone-free zone that develops high in the atmosphere over Antarctica each summer as the result of the presence of chlorine- and bromine-containing chemicals may not heal until 15 years later than previously projected.

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