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  1. Life

    Young tasmanian devil moms

    Tasmanian devils have started mating much earlier in response to an epidemic, called facial tumor disease, that is wiping out much of their population.

    By Tia Ghose

  2. Stored blood loses some of its punch

    Loss of nitric oxide from donated blood that's been stored for as little as 3 hours could impair its ability to flow through a recipient's blood vessels.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Earth

    Don’t like it hot

    King penguins don't live on continental Antarctica but even they are vulnerable to warming water.

    By Susan Milius
  4. Health & Medicine

    Don’t forget diet composition

    Caloric restriction, an antiaging technique, fails to lower levels of IGF-1, a growth factor that, in high amounts, is linked to cancer in humans. But cutting protein along with calories does decrease IGF-1.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  5. Health & Medicine

    Mondo bizarro

    Psychiatrists measuring the degree of similarity between dreams and psychotic ruminations report some strange features common to both.

    By Amy Maxmen
  6. Humans

    From the December 4, 1937, issue

    The perfect beauty of frost rime, the sun's surprising influence on earth, and digging up evidence of ancient domestic cats.

    By Science News
  7. Physics

    Short-lived particle questions long-lived theory

    In sifting through the ashes of a short-lived subatomic particle called the kaon, physicists are slowly accumulating new hints that the theory of elementary particles might one day have to be modified.

    By Ron Cowen
  8. Health & Medicine

    Streamlined polio vaccine fights outbreaks

    Back to basics: A simplified polio vaccine works better than the standard approach and overcomes an unforeseen shortcoming in the widely used oral vaccine.

    By Nathan Seppa
  9. Health & Medicine

    Reading minds … or at least brain scans

    By analyzing brain activity, computers can tell what word is on your mind.

    By Tia Ghose
  10. Health & Medicine

    Smart microbes

    Bacteria are smarter than you might think. Single-celled microbes can learn to predict changes in their environments and prepare themselves.

    By Patrick Barry
  11. Life

    Not so different after all

    Plague bacteria may be deadlier than its harmless cousin because of a few small genetic changes.

    By Tia Ghose
  12. Health & Medicine

    Animal rights and wrongs

    Featured blog: Some animal-rights activists are taking a page out of the anti-abortionists' playbook and now bully animal researchers at home.

    By Janet Raloff