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  1. Animals

    Bat syndrome’s telltale white nose-mold new to science

    Newly cultured fungus named as a suspect in deadly white-nose syndrome

    By Susan Milius
  2. 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.

    By Bruce Bower
  3. 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.

    By Bruce Bower
  4. 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.