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- Space
Hubble repair mission delayed yet again
Even as the Hubble Space Telescope was able to snap an image after several weeks of idling, a mission to visit and upgrade Hubble suffered another delay.
- Animals
Bat syndrome’s telltale white nose-mold new to science
Newly cultured fungus named as a suspect in deadly white-nose syndrome
- Humans
Stone Age innovation out of Africa
Researchers have dated two innovative Stone Age tool industries in southern Africa that may have helped spur human migrations out of Africa.
- Life
The Iceman’s mysterious genetic past
Scientists say that they have identified the complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of the 5,000-year-old Tyrolean Iceman, whose body was found protruding from a glacier in 1991.
- Space
MESSENGER glimpses Mercury’s Western hemisphere, new features
The results are in from MESSENGER’s second flyby of Mercury, one of the least-explored planets in the solar system.
- Health & Medicine
A sugar helps E. coli go down
Some harmful strains of E. coli might rely on something sweet to do harm.
- Animals
Farm chemicals can indirectly hammer frogs
A widely used agricultural weed killer teams up with fertilizer to render frogs especially vulnerable to debilitating parasites.
- Health & Medicine
Malaria takes on the top meds
Malaria is thwarting frontline drugs called artemisinins in Cambodia.
- Life
Salmon study: Dammed or not
Columbia River salmon have troubles all right, but dams may no longer top the list.
- Health & Medicine
Fungal meningitis spreads in Pacific Northwest
A fungus called Cryptococcus gattii that causes meningitis is slowly making its way down the North American West Coast.
- Archaeology
Return of the kings
Excavations in southern Jordan have incited controversy about whether a copper-producing society existed there 3,000 years ago, and whether it was controlled by Israeli kings described in the Old Testament.
- Tech
Bias, quakes and viruses, oh my!
Researchers present findings at the annual New Horizons in Science meeting.
