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  1. Gems and Gemstones: Timeless Natural Beauty of the Mineral World by Lance Grande and Allison Augustyn

    Gemstones are more than pretty baubles. Gems and their geological features are depicted in text and beautiful photographs. Univ. of Chicago Press, 2009, 369 p., $45. GEMS AND GEMSTONES: TIMELESS NATURAL BEAUTY OF THE MINERAL WORLD BY LANCE GRANDE AND ALLISON AUGUSTYN

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  2. Anthropology

    Contested evidence pushes Ardi out of the woods

    A controversial new investigation suggests that the ancient hominid lived on savannas, not in forests.

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  3. Earth

    A fresh look at Mount St. Helens

    Nearly 30 years after the peak’s major eruption, recovery has just begun.

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  4. Earth

    Earth’s atmosphere may be extraterrestrial in origin

    Analyses of krypton, xenon hint that air didn’t fizz from within the planet.

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  5. Life

    Missing chemicals on Titan could signal life

    Methane-based organisms on one of Saturn’s moons might be consuming the materials.

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  6. Space

    Geophysicists push age of Earth’s magnetic field back 250 million years

    South African rocks suggest that the earliest stages of life on Earth were protected from harmful solar radiation.

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  7. Earth

    World’s longest cave formation still growing

    Minerals still accumulate in New Mexico’s Snowy River.

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  8. Paleontology

    Sail-backed dinos had semiaquatic lifestyle

    Isotopic analyses of fossils suggest the carnivores had crocodile-like habits.

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  9. Planetary Science

    Signs of giant comet impacts found in cores

    An uptick in ammonium may be evidence of a 50-billion-ton strike at the end of the ice age.

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  10. Humans

    BP spill: Gulf is primed to heal, but . . .

    Every day, Mother Nature burps another 1,000 barrels of crude into the Gulf of Mexico, along with additional quantities of natural gas. Normally, these hydrocarbons don’t stick around long because local bacteria have evolved to eat them about as fast as they appear. Which is potentially good news, she explained in testimony during a pair of June 9 House subcommittee events on Capitol Hill, because those bugs are now in place to begin chowing down on the oil and gas entering the Gulf from BP's damaged Deepwater Horizon well.

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  11. Animals

    Wolverine: Climate warming threatens comeback

    BLOG: New data point to unexpected sociability and filial behavior in carnivore.

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  12. Earth

    Bacteria show new route to making oxygen

    New discovery adds to the few known biological pathways for making and metabolically using the gas.

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