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Astronomy

Anybody Out There?

This elaborate Web site brings together a wide variety of resources devoted to the question of life in the universe. Mounted by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and other European agencies, the site serves as home base for a competition aimed at eliciting responses from European students to the possibility of extraterrestrial life. […]

Ecosystems

Fish stocking may transmit toad disease

Hatchery-raised trout can transfer a deadly fungus to western toads, bolstering the view that fish stocking may play a role in amphibian population declines.

Paleontology

Neandertals, humans may have grown apart

A controversial fossil analysis finds that the skulls of Neandertals and humans grew in markedly different ways.