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  1. Letters

    Making tall or short of it In your article “The genetic dimension of height and health” ( SN: 5/9/09, p. 22 ), some medical consequences of being either taller or shorter than the median height of the study group are explained. To help us all extrapolate these findings to our own lives, don’t you think […]

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  2. Life

    Long-lasting daddy longlegs

    Fossils of two new daddy longlegs species have been unearthed in China.

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  3. Letters

    Reader letters : February 14, 2009.

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  4. Smart from the start

    Animal embryos get some respect for their survival skills.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Brain doesn’t sort by visual cues alone

    Blind and sighted people’s brains sort the living from the nonliving in the same way, suggesting this ability may be hard-wired.

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  6. Life

    Life: Science news of the year, 2008

    Science News writers and editors looked back at the past year's stories and selected a handful as the year's most interesting and important in Life. Follow hotlinks to the full, original stories.

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  7. Science Future for September 13, 2008

    September 7–9 The first INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics. To be held in Stockholm. Visit www.neuroinformatics2008.org Sept. 21–Nov. 2 The walk-through Spider Pavilion opens at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Visit the museum’s website at www.nhm.org Sept. 27–Oct. 12 Wired magazine’s NextFest in Chicago’s Millennium Park showcases global innovations. Visit www.wirednextfest.com

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  8. Ecosystems

    Eight-legged bags of poison

    Birds eating arachnids get high dose of toxic metal as mercury climbs up the food chain.

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  9. Venom hunters

    Scientists probe toxins, revealing the healing powers of biochemical weapons.

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  10. Animals

    Sexy side of UV-B

    The first evidence of ultraviolet-B courtship in animals comes from jumping spiders.

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  11. Crustacean shuffle

    A twisted joint might have made all the difference to scurrying crabs as they diverged from their clunky lobsterlike brethren.

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  12. Animals

    Not So Spineless

    Looking for personalities in animals, even among spiders and insects, could add new twists to ideas about evolution and explain some odd animal behavior.

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