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Climate Change Miscues May Shrink Species’ Outer Limits
By the Editor on May 22, 2012
Throughout the world, climate change is causing age-old ecological partners to miss their cues as seasons shift. The trend...
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What Baboons Can Teach Us About Social Status
By the Editor on May 22, 2012
A new study by University of Notre Dame biologist Beth Archie and colleagues from Princeton and Duke Universities finds...
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Happy Birthday, Electron
By the Editor on May 22, 2012
Electrons rule our world, but not so long ago they were only an idea. May marks the 120th anniversary...
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Rewritable Memory Encoded Into DNA
By the Editor on May 22, 2012
Researchers have encoded a form of rewritable memory into DNA. The arduous work involved in building the system is...
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Private Space Travel: A New Era Begins?
By the Editor on May 22, 2012
Some NASA supporters are mourning what they see as the decline of U.S. leadership in space. But they should...
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Toxic Mercury Accumulates in Arctic
By the Editor on May 22, 2012
Both atmospheric forces and the flow of circumpolar rivers carry mercury, a toxic element, north into the Arctic Ocean...
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Damage From Chemical Exposure Passed Down for Generations
By the Editor on May 22, 2012
New research has shown that exposure to commonly used chemicals causes changes in rats that are passed down through...
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Psychiatry Giant Sorry for Backing Gay ‘Cure’
By the Editor on May 21, 2012
Dr. Robert L. Spitzer, considered by some to be the father of modern psychiatry, knew he had to do...
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Jurassic Squid Ink Same as Modern Squid Ink
By the Editor on May 21, 2012
Ink from 160-million-year-old giant squid is essentially identical to today’s squid ink. The discovery suggests that the ink and...
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Arctic Melt Releasing Ancient Methane
By the Editor on May 21, 2012
Scientists have identified thousands of sites in the Arctic where methane that has been stored for many millennia is...
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