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  1. Animals

    Toxic Birds May Get Poison from Beetles

    Eating certain beetles may make the skin and feathers of some birds poisonous.

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  2. Brain

    Sleep to Remember Places and Routes

    Deep sleep may help your brain solidify memories of where you've been and how you got there.

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  3. Tech

    Explorer of the extreme deep

    A new project to build an improved research sub aims to shed light on the mysterious ocean depths.

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  4. Humans

    Little people cause big surprise

    Scientists uncover the skeleton of a small-bodied relative of human beings.

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  5. Animals

    Growing up in dangerous waters

    Wild guppies that live in dangerous places don't live fast and die young as scientists previously thought.

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  6. Tech

    Inspired by nature

    Researchers are applying lessons learned from butterflies, beetles, mussels, and other creatures to problems of human survival.

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  7. Chemistry

    Pencil Thin

    Wispy sheets of carbon could be the next microscale construction material.

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  8. Fossils

    Early birds ready to rumble

    A fossil hints that prehistoric baby birds could have fed themselves soon after hatching.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Packing Fat

    Even among kids, waistlines are bulging, and many people are worried about the trend.

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  10. Brain

    Fruit fly brain has two clocks

    Fruit flies have not one, but two built-in clocks to regulate daily activity.

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  11. Brain

    Hearing Better in the Dark

    Blind people are better at locating distant sounds than people who can see.

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  12. Tech

    Cold house, hot house, green house

    Saving energy at home requires paying attention to the building's windows, walls, and roof.

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