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We summarize the week's science breakthroughs every Thursday.

  1. Paleontology

    Dino feathers may have had earlier origin than thought

    Researchers report that newly described dinosaur fossils suggest an ancient origin of feathers.

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  2. Ecosystems

    Too much intermingling puts native trout in trouble

    Even a small amount of hybridizing may cause problems for the native westslope cutthroat trout.

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  3. Earth

    North America’s smallest dino predator

    A new fossil analysis uncovers what may have been North America’s tiniest dino predator.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    MicroRNAs provide telltale signature of organ rejection

    Levels of microRNAs in the blood and tissue distinguish rejected transplants from healthy tissue.

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  5. Animals

    Urban Ants of North America and Europe: Identification, Biology and Management by John Klotz, Michael Rust, Reiner Pospischil and Laurel Hansen

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  6. Life

    Live Wires

    Cells reach out and touch each other with tunneling nanotubes.

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  7. Life

    Vive la cycles

    Researchers have identified a missing gear in the clock that helps plants tell night from day.

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  8. Tech

    Whiz Kids: The Movie

    New independent film showcases the arduous path by which extraodinary high school researchers reach the Science Talent Search competition in Washington, D.C.

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  9. Animals

    Public tantrums defeat monkey moms too

    Rhesus macaque moms are more likely to give in to screaming babies when bystanders are watching and reacting

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  10. Life

    Aphids support symbionts with borrowed DNA

    Aphids borrowed at least two genes from bacterial buddies, and those genes now support another bacterium that lives in the insects.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Study finds plenty of apparent plagiarism

    Featured blog: A data-mining program looks for and finds plagiarism among scientific papers. The researchers survey the papers' writers and editors.

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  12. Agriculture

    Gut bacteria ally with Bt

    A new study finds that a particular microbe makes caterpillars susceptible to the insecticide.

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