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  1. 19520

    Early in our history, U.S. citizens ate bushmeat. We hunted deer, bear, squirrel, rabbit, possum, turkey, pheasant, armadillo, and other wild game. We hunted because it was easier to hunt than to earn the money necessary to buy meat. We diminished our supply of wild game. Africans are simply doing what we used to do. […]

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  2. Earth

    Nano Hazards: Exposure to minute particles harms lungs, circulatory system

    Inhaling microscopic nanospheres and nanotubes, as might occur during their manufacture or commercial use, could trigger damage well beyond the lungs.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Back to Genetics: DNA variant may code for lumbar pain

    An inheritable gene variation may increase susceptibility to lumbar-disk disease.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Potent Medicine

    Drugs now used to treat erectile dysfunction might soon assume multiple roles in managing heart disease and other conditions, including some that affect women and infants.

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  5. Humans

    Letters from the April 16, 2005, issue of Science News

    Ax questions, hard answers Another hypothesis for the polish on the Stone Age corundum ax head is that the Stone Age people never had absolutely pure corundum, which indeed would have required diamond to polish (“In the Buff: Stone Age tools may have derived luster from diamond,” SN: 2/19/05, p. 116). It is possible that […]

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  6. Humans

    From the May 11, 1935, issue

    Falconry in the United States, new 'ears' for anti-aircraft guns, and Albert Einstein's objections to quantum mechanics.

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  7. Math

    Fibonacci’s Other Numbers

    Arrays of whole numbers can give intriguing sums.

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  8. Tech

    Easy Striders

    New robots based on the mechanics of human walking use less energy and move more naturally than traditional bipedal robots do, suggesting new ways to approach two-legged robots and prosthetic design.

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  9. Milked enzyme thwarts muscle disorder

    Using an enzyme made in rabbit's milk, scientists have successfully treated a rare genetic disorder.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Slimmer Ticks, Less Disease: Tick-semen protein is potential vaccine

    An antitick vaccine using a protein that causes female ticks to engorge on blood may control tick populations, a new study suggests.

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  11. Math

    Manuscripts as Fossils

    A new mathematical model estimates how many medieval manuscripts have survived to the present.

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  12. Humans

    Genes on Display

    DNA becomes part of the artist's palette.

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