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Earth
Forest loss slows in Brazilian Amazon
Between 2004 and 2009, the rate of clearing dropped almost 75 percent.
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Life
Aphids, abandon ship
Warm, humid mammal breath drives the insects to jump off plants.
By Susan Milius -
Earth
Rodent poop gauges ancient rains
The size of chinchilla pellets reveals past desert environment.
By Sid Perkins -
Life
Removing a barrier to regrowing organs
Depleting proteins that prevent cancer allowed heart cells to regenerate in mouse experiments.
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Life
Gene licensing stifles R&D
Making research findings private property can stymie innovation down the road, a new study finds.
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The pattern collector
Neil Sloane's Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences outgrows its creator.
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Health & Medicine
Brain has emotional sense
Scientists have found regions that may be involved in storing the sights, smells, and sounds of emotional memories.
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Life
Emerging disease may wipe out common bat in the Northeast
Hard-hit region could lose little brown myotis to white-nose syndrome within decades
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Space
All wet, or high and dry?
The moon’s interior contains far less water than Earth’s, new studies of rocks collected by Apollo astronauts suggest.
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Humans
World of proteincraft
Players compete to solve scientific puzzles in an online computer game.