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  1. Insect receptor for sweat creates buzz

    A sweat-sensing cell-surface protein allows female mosquitoes to target human skin.

    By John Travis
  2. Health & Medicine

    Seeing Red and Finding Fraudulent Fish

    The sale of falsely labeled fish has implications for health, nutrition, and the environment.

    By Janet Raloff

  3. Beg Your Indulgence

    The Japanese concept of amae, in which one person presumes that another will indulgently grant a special request, may apply to different forms of behavior at different ages, even in Western countries.

    By Bruce Bower
  4. Tech

    Hungry for Nano

    The food industry is turning to nanotechnology as it searches for innovations that could bring safer, healthier, and tastier products to consumers.

    By Alexandra Goho
  5. Math

    Groups, Graphs, and Erdös Numbers

    Erdös numbers reveal the great extent of mathematical collaboration.

    By Ivars Peterson
  6. Health & Medicine

    AIDS Vaccine Tests Well in Monkeys

    An experimental AIDS vaccine bolstered with two immune proteins protects rhesus monkeys from the disease even when they are exposed to a combination of simian and human immunodeficiency virus.

    By Nathan Seppa
  7. Animals

    Single singing male toad seeks same

    Male spadefoot toads of the Spea multiplicata species evaluate male competitors by the same criterion females use.

    By Ruth Bennett
  8. Astronomy

    Dark Doings

    A slew of new and proposed experiments, ranging from the cosmic to the subatomic scale, may shed light on why the expansion of the universe is speeding up.

    By Ron Cowen
  9. Humans

    Science Revalued: Report seeks revived Smithsonian science

    A long-awaited report on science at the Smithsonian Institution calls urgently for more funding and also recommends preservation of beseiged materials-research center.

    By Susan Milius

  10. Don’t Let the Bugs Bite

    Using disease-control strategies based on genetic engineering, scientists are working to counter Chagas' disease, malaria, sleeping sickness, and other insectborne infections.

    By Ben Harder

  11. Tailoring Therapies: Cloned human embryo provides stem cells

    Scientists have for the first time carried test-tube cloning of a human embryo to the stage at which it can yield stem cells.

    By John Travis
  12. Earth

    POPs treaty enacted

    A new United Nations treaty that seeks to phase down or eliminate production and use of 16 persistent, toxic pollutants has gone into effect.

    By Janet Raloff