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  1. Math

    Summing Up Literature

    Statistical analyses of literary texts provide new insights about novels.

    By Julie Rehmeyer
  2. Humans

    From the June 19, 1937, issue

    Raindrop disruption as the cause of lightning, phonograph recordings of the language of wild gibbons, and a possible connection between jaundice and arthritis.

    By Science News
  3. Animals

    Profiles in Courtship: Flirting male fish show their best sides

    Courting male guppies that sport a tad more orange on one side of their bodies than on the other tend to flash that brighter side at females.

    By Susan Milius
  4. Paleontology

    Jurassic CSI: Fossils indicate central nervous system damage

    Fossils found in the head-thrown-back position, the so-called "dead bird" pose, probably died from central nervous system damage.