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  1. Health & Medicine

    Attack on Elephantiasis: Antibiotic offers weapon against tropical scourge

    An antibiotic called doxycycline can cure people of elephantiasis, a parasitic disease, by killing the bacterium that the parasite needs to survive.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Animals

    Dee for Danger: Chickadees add notes as threat grows

    Chickadees change their alarm calls depending on how serious a lurking predator seems.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Paleontology

    Killer Bite: Ancient, tiny mammal probably used venom

    Paleontologists have unearthed the remains of an ancient, mouse-size mammal that seems to have had a venomous bite.

    By Sid Perkins
  4. Humans

    Letters from the June 25, 2005, issue of Science News

    Dark secret? “Dark Influence: Most of the universe’s matter is out of sight, but not out of mind” (SN: 4/23/05, p.