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  1. Animals

    Being a vampire can be brutal. Here’s how bloodsuckers get by.

    Blood-sucking animals have specialized physiology and other tools to live on a diet rich in protein and lacking in some nutrients.

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  2. Plants

    ‘The Long, Long Life of Trees’ takes readers on a walk in the woods

    The Long, Long Life of Trees explores the scientific, historical and cultural significance of apple, birch, elm and 14 other kinds of trees.

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  3. Science & Society

    See life in a cubic foot, visit Roman artifacts, and more to do

    New and upcoming exhibits celebrate biodiversity, birds’ dinosaur origins, opulence in ancient Rome, and more.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Readers contemplate aging research

    Aging research, dino guts and Earth's quasisatellite in reader feedback.

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  5. Science & Society

    See the Starship Enterprise, design virtual robots, and more

    New museum exhibits highlight air and space travel, DARPA technologies and pterosaurs.

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  6. Paleontology

    Ancient armored fish revises early history of jaws

    The fossil of a 423-million-year-old armored fish from China suggests that the jaws of all modern land vertebrates and bony fish originated in a bizarre group of animals called placoderms.

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  7. Science & Society

    ‘House of Lost Worlds’ opens vaults of renowned natural history museum

    'House of Lost Worlds' pays homage to Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History and to the colorful scientists who made the museum great.

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  8. Animals

    ‘Prehistoric Predators’ is a carnival of ancient dinosaurs, mammals and more

    A new children’s book offers gorgeous illustrations and information for everyone about ancient carnivores.

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  9. Chemistry

    Movie viewers’ exhaled chemicals tell if scene is funny, scary

    Changes in trace gases exhaled by movie audiences could point the way to a subtle form of human communication.

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  10. Animals

    The dinosaurs in the backyard

    Chickens are some of the closest relatives of dinosaurs, and though genetic tinkering the birds might even one day be turned into tiny dinos.

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  11. Animals

    ‘Silent Sparks’ illuminates fascinating world of fireflies

    In a new book, a firefly researcher explores why scientists and kids alike are captivated by lightning bugs.

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  12. Earth

    Dinosaurs may not have seen the Grand Canyon after all

    New geologic comparisons peg the Grand Canyon’s inception well after dinosaurs went extinct.

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