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  1. Life

    Life

    A fossil flower from one of life’s early bloomers, plus monkey business and shark cleanings in this week’s news.

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  2. Animals

    Epidemic of skin lesions reported in reef fish

    A British-Australian research team has just found coral trout living on the south side of the Great Barrier Reef sporting dark skin raised, scablike, brown-black growths. Although the authors believe they’ve stumbled onto an epidemic of melanoma — a type of skin cancer — other experts have their doubts. Strong ones.

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  3. Science Future for June 4, 2011

    June 27 Go behind the scenes of Houston’s Cockrell Butterfly Center. Go to https://store.hmns.org July 15–17 Swim with the world’s largest fish at the fourth annual Whale Shark Festival in Isla Mujeres, Mexico. More information at www.whalesharkfest.com

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  4. Book Review: Shark: In Peril in the Sea by David Owen

    Review by Sid Perkins.

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  5. Life

    Life

    Ultrasonic ribbits, saving dead trees and fishy retribution in this week’s news.

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  6. Ecosystems

    Sharks use math to hunt

    Marine predators cruise the seas using fractal principles.

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  7. Humans

    Big fish return to Mexican marine park

    Most effects of overharvesting reversed within a decade.

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  8. Math

    Cells take on traveling salesman problem

    With neither minds nor maps- chemical-sensing immune players do well with decades-old mathematical problem, a computer simulation reveals.

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  9. Humans

    Nobelists advise budding scientists

    Laureates share unconventional wisdom with young investigators at Intel ISEF 2011.

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  10. Tech

    Hooking fish, not endangered turtles

    A tuna fisherman has taken it upon himself to make the seas safer for sea turtles, animals that are threatened or endangered with extinction worldwide. He’s designed a new hook that he says will make bait unavailable to marine birds and turtles until long after it’s sunk well below the range where these animals venture to eat.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Brainy Ballplayers

    Elite athletes get their heads in the game.

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  12. Life

    Dolphin may sense the body electric

    Organs on the species' snout help it detect faint fields, like those generated by prey.

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