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  1. Fickle Finger’s Funny Feel: Digit illusion modifies touch perception

    The brain rapidly adjusts its internal map of the body's skin surface, according to a new study of people who underwent laboratory procedures that induced illusions of finger growth or shrinkage.

    By Bruce Bower

  2. Boning Up: Tissue for grafts grown inside the body

    Scientists have discovered a new way to stimulate one part of an animal's body to grow extra bone tissue that can be transplanted elsewhere.

    By Christen Brownlee
  3. Paleontology

    Young and Helpless: Fossils suggest that dinosaur parents cared

    Skeletal remains found in the fossilized eggs of an early dinosaur hint that adults of the species may have cared for their hatchlings.