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  1. Science Future for April 9, 2011

    April 16 The American Museum of Natural History in New York City opens an exhibit exploring the world’s largest dinosaurs. Visit www.amnh.org April 22 Learn about the planet and its ecology at events around the country. Go to www.earthday.org April 28 Sample the science of chocolate at an evening of entertainment in Durham, N.C. See […]

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  2. Life

    Life

    Chimps are righties and orangutans lefties, plus singing mice and chilly dinosaurs in this week's news.

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  3. Life

    Life

    Bats are savvy shoppers for insect snacks, plus heartless dinos and worm evolution in this week’s news.

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  4. Book Review: Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle by Thor Hanson

    Review by Sid Perkins.

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  5. Life

    Mammal size maxed out after dinos’ demise

    Opening new ecological niches led to a worldwide boom in size, up to a point.

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  6. Paleontology

    The hunchback of central Spain

    An exquisitely preserved dinosaur from central Spain has a hump on its back and suggestions of featherlike appendages on its arms. The primitive carnivore lived about 125 million years ago and may push back the first known instance of feathers on the dinosaur family tree.

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  7. Earth

    Defying Depth

    How deep-sea creatures, and close relatives, survive tons of water weight.

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  8. Earth

    Earth/Environment

    A killer methane belch, radon-siphoning trees, deep oil-spill science and more in this week’s news.

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  9. Earth

    Dinosaurs, in living color

    Researchers find microscopic structures in some fossils that may have held pigments.

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  10. Paleontology

    Sea monsters made great mothers

    Fossilized plesiosaur with fetus suggests ancient reptiles cared for their young.

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  11. 2011 Science News of the Year: Life

    Multicellular life from a test tube In less than two months, yeast in a test tube evolved from single-celled life to bristly multicellular structures. The new, snowflakelike forms act like multicellular organisms, reproducing by splitting when they reach large sizes and evolving further in response to harsh conditions, William Ratcliff of the University of Minnesota, […]

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  12. Science & Society

    90th Anniversary Issue: 1980s

    Solving the AIDS puzzle and other highlights, 1980–89

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