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  1. Environment

    Fishing for fun takes toll

    Sportfishing can account for a surprisingly large part of the catch of certain types of saltwater fish.

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  2. Psychology

    Worlds of self-esteem

    The way you feel about yourself can affect what other people think of you.

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  3. Planets

    Saturn’s New Moons

    The Cassini spacecraft has found evidence of lightning and two tiny moons orbiting the ringed planet.

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  4. Fossils

    Ferocious growth spurts

    Teenage tyrannosaurs packed on the pounds.

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  5. Climate

    A dire shortage of water

    Parts of the southwestern United States are in the middle of the worst drought in at least 500 years.

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  6. Brain

    Seeing Red and Blue and . . .

    Seeing lots of colors when you're young might determine how well you recognize hues later in life.

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  7. Space

    Burst busters

    A powerful type of explosion in outer space is much more common, but not always as powerful, as astronomers had thought.

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  8. Animals

    The buzz about mosquitoes

    Learning more about mosquitoes can help us control the blood-sucking insects and prevent deadly diseases.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Spitting Up Blobs to Get Around

    A nasty parasite finds a new host by making a fly cough up a blob of gel.

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  10. Animals

    Sleep lessons from sparrows

    During migration season, certain sparrows remain amazingly alert even when they haven't had much sleep.

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  11. Planets

    Ringing Saturn

    The Cassini spacecraft has arrived at Saturn to start exploring the planet and its rings and moons.

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  12. Fossils

    Dino bite leaves a tooth

    Meat-eating dinosaurs sometimes feasted on flying reptiles.

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