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  1. Mother Knows Worst: Abusive parenting spans generations in monkeys

    Many female rhesus monkeys who were abused as infants by their mothers do the same to their own infants, raising the prospect of using these animals as a model for human child abuse.

    By Bruce Bower
  2. Planetary Science

    Pebbles from Heaven: Tracking planets in the making

    Recording radio waves from the region around a young star, astronomers have for the first time documented the making pebbles, a key step in the rocky road to planethood.

    By Ron Cowen
  3. Earth

    Bacteria Ride the Tide: Moon’s phases predict water quality at beaches

    At many ocean beaches, full and new moons coincide with the greatest concentrations of bacteria in the water.