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  1. Animals

    Sharpshooter threatens Tahiti by inedibility

    A North American insect is menacing Tahitian ecosystems by getting itself killed and proving surprisingly toxic to its predators.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Parasite can’t survive without its tail

    The protozoan that causes African sleeping sickness can't survive in the mammalian bloodstream without its long, whiplike tail.

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  3. Physics

    Revealing Covert Actions

    The recent merger of high-speed video technology and centuries-old techniques for seeing ordinarily invisible fluctuations of the air is enabling engineers to visualize and study the previously unseen, large-scale behavior of shock waves in explosions and aerodynamics research.

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  4. Materials Science

    Spin City

    Researchers are using a technique called electrospinning to create fibrous mats that have potential applications in drug delivery, wound care, and tissue engineering.