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  1. Astronomy

    Alien Light: Extrasolar planets are detected in new way

    Two teams of scientists report that they have for the first time directly detected the glow of planets that circle sunlike stars hundreds of light-years from Earth.

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  2. Paleontology

    Old Softy: Tyrannosaurus fossil yields flexible tissue

    Scientists analyzing fragments of a Tyrannosaurus rex's leg bone have recovered soft, pliable material, including structures that apparently are cells and blood vessels.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Plants take bite out of deadly snake venoms

    A Nigerian pharmacologist has found in local plants a potential antidote to some of the world's most deadly snake venoms.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Flame retardants spark new concern

    Breakdown products in brominated flame retardants, traces of which circulate in the blood of most people, may perturb the normal production of reproductive hormones, a new test-tube study suggests.

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  5. Earth

    Paint additive hammers coral

    A pesticidal additive in the paint applied to ship hulls may be contributing to the worldwide decline of corals.

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  6. Humans

    Letters from the March 26, 2005, issue of Science News

    Sleeper issue “Goodnight moon, hello Mom and Dad” (SN: 1/22/05, p. 61) attributes behaviors of earlier bedtime, longer sleeping, and earlier weaning to “greater personal independence” in children who sleep alone. It is equally possible that these behaviors are due to something else. Research predicting which children and families will benefit from co-sleeping or alone […]

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  7. Animals

    Ant larvae sway to say, ‘Feed me!’

    The most detailed study yet of body language of ant larvae translates a swaying motion as begging for food and a chance at a better future.

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  8. Planetary Science

    Jupiter as mirror for the sun’s X rays

    X rays emanating from Jupiter's midriff actually originate on the sun, new observations show.

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  9. 19532

    I am troubled by the conclusion drawn in this article. The report says that college-educated adults do better on memory tests, displaying pronounced frontal brain activity, than do their less-educated peers. Might it not be just as reasonable to hypothesize that those who are able to “recruit the frontal brain into a memory system” do […]

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  10. College may endow memory to old brains

    College-educated older adults recruit new brain areas to counteract some of the memory loss that occurs with aging, a new brain-imaging study suggests.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    New protease inhibitor looks promising

    An antiretroviral drug under development may work in patients for whom existing drugs fall short.

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  12. Astronomy

    Too Darn Hot

    A new theory of planet formation suggests that sizzling-hot Earths may be abundant throughout the galaxy and could soon be detected.

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