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  1. Animals

    Egg Shell Game

    Birds apparently cheat chance when it comes to laying eggs that contain sons or daughters.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Physics

    The Hunt for Antihelium

    Scientists have been searching about 30 years for a single nucleus of helium made from antimatter, and although the discovery would imply that whole antimatter galaxies exist, the researchers' time could be running out.

    By Patrick Barry
  3. Humans

    Letters from the May 12, 2007, issue of Science News

    Saw right through it E. Fred Schubert and his colleagues are to be congratulated for developing an improved antireflective coating (“The New Black: A nanoscale coating reflects almost no light,” SN: 3/3/07, p.