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  1. Math

    A Catalog of Random Bits

    The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

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  2. Verbal sighting in brains of the blind

    Brain areas typically responsible for visual processing instead contribute to verbal skills in blind people.

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  3. Planetary Science

    Martian water everywhere

    Combining data taken from two craft orbiting Mars with images and spectra collected by one of the Mars rovers, a scientist has found evidence that a body of water greater in area than all the Great Lakes combined once covered the Red Planet.

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  4. Physics

    To freeze this liquid, add heat

    A wrong-headed mixture of liquid starch, water, and a solvent freezes when heated.