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  1. Humans

    Mutant Maps

    Struck by an analogy between genetic mutations and flaws in antique printed documents, a biologist has devised a method to analyze such flaws to pinpoint publication dates of rare, undated documents.

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  2. Humans

    Letters from the August 26, 2006, issue of Science News

    Dust to dust In “Not a planet?” (SN: 6/17/06, p. 382), Alycia Weinberger says, “The discovery of a disk around the planetary-mass companion to 2M1207 should be a bit of a relief to planet-formation theorists” because it casts doubt on the object being a planet. But wouldn’t our early solar system have been composed of […]

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  3. Math

    Puzzling Names in Boxes

    An ingenious search strategy leads to a death-defying feat.