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  1. Worst of Two Worlds: Hybrid mosquitoes spread West Nile virus

    Interbreeding between two Old World mosquito species may explain why their blood-sucking brethren in the United States transmit West Nile virus to people as readily as they do.

    By Ben Harder
  2. Humans

    Letters from the March 6, 2004, issue of Science News

    All we have to fear In “9/11’s Fatal Road Toll: Terror attacks presaged rise in U.S. car deaths” (SN: 1/17/04, p. 37: 9/11’s Fatal Road Toll: Terror attacks presaged rise in U.S. car deaths), it was assumed that people who switched from planes to cars after the terrorist attacks did so because of fear. However, […]

    By Science News
  3. Physics

    Bubble Fusion: Once-maligned claim rebounds

    Researchers who reported 2 years ago that they created nuclear-fusion reactions inside bubbles imploding in a vat of liquid acetone have now bolstered their controversial claim with new evidence.