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LATEST NEWS

• Women Are Better Than Men at Pounding Nails
• Half of Americans Use Vibrators, Study Claims
• Huge 'Megapiranha' Fossil Found in South America
• Cheerleading Is America's Most Dangerous Sport
• Scientists Get First Image of Memory Being Made
• Stoned Wallabies Create Crop Circles in Poppy Fields
• Third of All Shark Species Threatened With Extinction, Group Says
• Global Recession Cuts Down on Global Warming
• Battle Brews Over Mining Proposals for Northern Minnesota
• Huge Burmese Pythons Released in South Carolina
• Sharks, Serial Killers Use Similar Hunting Strategies
• Pitcher Plant Doubles as Toilet
• Fish, Humans Have Similar Social Learning Strategies, Study Shows
• Same-Sex Behavior Found in Nearly All Animals
• Microbe Wakes Up After 120,000 Years in Ice

AGRICULTURE & BOTANY

• Battle Brews Over Mining Proposals for Northern Minnesota
• How Green Is Your Morning Coffee?
• Human Hair Helps Plants Grow Better
• How Green Is Biodiesel?
• Surprise! Bananas Glow Blue Under Black Light
• Wood Power Makes Comeback in Midst of Fuel Crisis
• Poachers, Houses Crowd Out Venus Flytraps in Carolinas
• Stressed Plants Release Aspirin-Like Chemical
• Scientist: Western Aid Agencies Keep Africa Poor
• Surprising Truths About Fruits and Vegetables
• Eight New 'Natural Wonders of World' Named
• Eight New 'Natural Wonders of World' Named
• U.S. Government Decoding DNA of Chocolate
• English Crop Circle's Mysterious Pattern Solved
• Tree Grown From Ancient Seed Found in Jewish Fortress

ARTHROPODS

• Scientists Develop Better Mosquito Repellent
• Honeybees Dying Off Slightly More Slowly
• How Ants Smell Death
• Giant Spiders Invade Australian Outback Town
• Nevadans Fend Off Hungry Insects With Rock 'n' Roll
• How Green Are Natural Insecticides?
• Fifty New Species Found in New Guinea Mountains
• Scientist: Terrorists Could Use Insects as Weapons
• Pleasure Chemical Is Secret Key to Locust Swarms
• 'Super-Ants' Taking Over Europe
• Spider Missing Aboard International Space Station
• Ravenous Asian Beetles Devour New England Trees
• Strange Stick Bug Is World's Longest Insect
• Strange 'Ant From Mars' Discovered in Amazon Rainforest
• Why Female Spiders Eat Their Mates: Because They Can

BIRDS

• Gay Penguins Raise Chick Together in German Zoo
• Penguin Poop Seen From Space, Reveals New Colonies
• Dead Birds Rain From Sky in Western Australia
• Another Bird Shows It Can Use Tools
• Dancing Parrot on YouTube Leads to Scientific Theory
• Big Extinct Birds Left Big Fossilized Droppings
• Bush Moves to Protect Seven Penguin Species
• Search Back On for Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
• Scientists Find New Penguin, Extinct for 500 Years
• Brazil Airlifts Hundreds of Penguins to Colder Waters
• Ostriches Kicked Out of Own Family
• Hundreds of Dying Baby Penguins Wash Up on Brazilian Beaches
• DNA Study Revamps Birds' Family Tree
• Wounded Bald Eagle Gets Her Bionic Beak
• Study: Makeup Makes Male Birds Sexier, More Macho

CHEMISTRY

• Florida Town to Start Using Sewage for Fuel
• How Green Is Your Swimming Pool?
• Cocaine Found Floating in Air of Spanish Cities
• Scientists May Have Found How Life Began
• New Form of Ice Could Help Seed Rainclouds
• Simple Form of Water May Be 'Miracle Solution'
• Scotch Whisky By-Product to Fuel Power Plant
• How Green Is Recycled Plastic Lumber?
• 3 Win Nobel Chemistry Prize for Protein Discovery
• Company Creates Hard-to-Ignite Fertilizer to Foil Bomb-Makers
• Study: U.S. Paper Money Covered With Cocaine
• Mortuaries Mull Dissolving Bodies as Burial, Cremation Alternative
• Canadian Brewery Seeks Answer to 'Beer Chill' Problem
• New Protein Antifreeze Improves Ice Cream
• Stamp Honoring Scientist Contains Chemical Error

CLIMATE CHANGE, GLOBAL WARMING & METEOROLOGY

• Global Recession Cuts Down on Global Warming
• How Green Are Jon and Kate Gosselin?
• Global Warming May Be Slowing America's Winds
• U.N.: Nature Best at Handling Climate Change
• Don't Play Guilt Card, Environmentalists Told
• Plane Vanished in Region Known for Huge Storms
• Experts Anticipate 'Nightmare' Situation if Hurricane Hit New York City
• Kofi Annan: Climate Change Killing 300,000 People a Year
• How Green Is Ecotourism?
• NYC, Boston May See Even Higher Sea Level Rise
• Climate-Change 'Time Bomb' Delayed, Scientists Find
• Sarkozy Gets Flak for Boosting Climate-Change Skeptic
• Obama Energy Secretary: Paint World White to Fight Global Warming
• Global CEOs Back Greenhouse Gas Cuts, Carbon Caps
• Is the Climate Warming or Cooling?

DNA, GENETICS & HEREDITY

• Human Intelligence May Cause Cancer
• Japanese Gene-Splicers Make Glowing Monkeys
• Africans Most Genetically Varied People on Earth
• S. Korean Experts Claim to Have Cloned Glowing Dogs
• Scientists: Incest Doomed European Royal Dynasty
• Researchers Finish First Draft of Neanderthal Genome
• Study: 20 Percent of Spanish, Portuguese Have Jewish Ancestry
• Future Office-Seekers May Have to Disclose DNA
• Researchers Find 'Transsexual Gene'
• 'Iceman' Alpine Mummy May Have Been Last of His Kind
• Ancient Phoenicians Left Genetic Markers Around Mediterranean
• Scientists' Entire DNA Sequences to Be Posted on Web
• Mysterious DNA Found to Survive Eons of Evolution
• DNA Could Land Dog Owners in Deep Doo-Doo
• Study: 'Gay' Genes May Make Females More Fertile

FISH & SHARKS

• Huge 'Megapiranha' Fossil Found in South America
• Third of All Shark Species Threatened With Extinction, Group Says
• Sharks, Serial Killers Use Similar Hunting Strategies
• Fish, Humans Have Similar Social Learning Strategies, Study Shows
• New 'Dracula Fish' Has Fake Fangs
• Fishermen Catch, Eat Rare Shark in the Philippines
• Filipino Activists Rescue What May Be World's Smallest Whale Shark
• Psychedelic Fish Named a New Species
• Strange Fish Has See-Through Head
• Endangered Sharks to Get Artificial Uteruses
• Scientists Realize Three Different Fish Are One Species
• Great White Shark Dissection to Be Shown Live Online
• Scientists: Disconnect Great Lakes, Mississippi Watershed
• Gigantic Salmon Found in California River
• Strange Fish Found Thriving Five Miles Deep in Pacific

GEOLOGY & SEISMOLOGY

• Radar Reveals Mountains Hidden Under Antarctic Ice
• Giant Blob Found Deep Beneath Nevada
• Natural Oil 'Spills': Surprising Amount Seeps Into Sea
• Oldest Surface on Earth Discovered
• Alaska's Mount Redoubt Volcano Shows Increased Unrest
• Complex Geology Behind Italian Earthquake
• Mount Redoubt Shifts to Small but Steady Eruptions
• Mount Redoubt Quiets After Spewing Ash on Anchorage
• Huge Ash Cloud Towers Above Alaska's Mount Redoubt
• Huge Explosion Rocks Alaska's Mount Redoubt
• Mount Redoubt Erupts Again Wednesday Morning
• New Tremors Detected on Alaska's Mount Redoubt
• Alaska's Mount Redoubt Erupts Five Times in Six Hours
• Scientists Rush to Erupting Pacific Undersea Volcano
• Undersea Volcano Erupts Off Tonga Coast

THE HUMAN MIND & BODY

• Women Are Better Than Men at Pounding Nails
• Half of Americans Use Vibrators, Study Claims
• Cheerleading Is America's Most Dangerous Sport
• Scientists Get First Image of Memory Being Made
• Toddler Has Same IQ Score as Stephen Hawking
• Study: Conservatives More Easily Disgusted Than Liberals
• What Causes a Fear of Flying?
• Study: Girls Do Understand Math, but We Don't Want Them To
• The Science of a Super-Fast Pitch
• Happiness Is ... Being Old, Male and Republican
• Do Fat People Cause Global Warming?
• Women May Get Sex Pills, Too
• Study Finds Why Some Men Are 'Chubby Chasers'
• Anti-Addiction Drug Quells Kleptomaniac Impulses
• Study: 'Friends With Benefits' Sex Common in College

MAMMALS

• Stoned Wallabies Create Crop Circles in Poppy Fields
• Scientists Find Dogs Don't Feel Guilt at All
• Measuring Cow Burps in Fight Against Climate Change
• 'Montauk Monster' Mystery May Have Been Solved
• Baby White Rhino Debuts at Madrid Zoo
• Tickled Apes Prove Laughter Is 10 Million Years Old
• Mammoth Skeleton Unearthed in Serbia
• Caught on Video: Whales Steal Fish
• Animals Can Tell the Difference Between Right and Wrong, Research Shows
• New 'Montauk Monster' Likely Same Species as Old One
• Monkeys Ponder What Could Have Been
• New 'Montauk Monster' Washes Up on Long Island Beach
• Google Gets Goats to Mow Lawn at Company Headquarters
• Forest Service Closing Caves to Stop Bat Fungus
• Thoroughbreds May Be as Fast as They'll Ever Be

MATHEMATICS

• Scientist Predicts 2009's Best Baseball Teams
• MIT Professor Becomes Second Woman to Win $250,000 Turing Prize
• Math Freaks Celebrate Square Root Day
• Mathematician: Tampa Bay Devil Rays Likely to Win World Series
• Mathematicians Make Three-Dimensional Images of Music
• Mathematicians Build 'Perfect' Terrorist Cell
• Math Team Solves 248-Dimensional Puzzle
• Fans of Pi Have Their Day
• Study: Countries That Hate Math Do Better at It
• Japanese Man Recites First 100,000 Digits of Pi
• Mysterious Mathematician Solves Problem, Refuses Award
• Study: Babies Can Do Math at Six Months
• Chinese, English Speakers Use Brains Differently to Tackle Math
• Virginia Boy, 15, Recites 8,784 Digits of Pi

MICROBIOLOGY

• Microbe Wakes Up After 120,000 Years in Ice
• Bacteria in Air So Numerous They Form Clouds
• Million-Year-Old Microbe Colony Found Under Antarctic Ice
• Strange Beings Found in Great Lakes
• Common Cold DNA Deciphered, Congestion Continues
• Fuel-Making Fungus Challenges Oil Creation Theory
• Fungi Caught Having Sex in Humans
• New Species of Bacteria Found in Ancient Roman Tombs
• Study: Chesapeake Bay Asteroid Impact Didn't Kill Everything
• Scientists Find Microbes That Eat Garbage, Excrete Crude Oil
• Bacteria Survive 120,000 Years Under Greenland Ice
• Strange Earth Life Gives Hope for Same on Mars
• Tiny Microbes Found Thriving Mile Below Seafloor
• Two Bacteria Species Merging Into One
• Viruses Found Transmitting Genes Among Bacteria

OCEANOGRAPHY & MARINE BIOLOGY

• Amazing Creatures on 'Top 10 New Species' List
• Life Thrives Atop Steaming Underwater Volcano
• 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' Cleanup Effort Begins
• Every Octopus in World Is Poisonous, Scientists Find
• Seven Million Pounds of Beach Trash Picked Up in One Day
• Google Earth Goes Underwater, Flies to Mars
• Scientists Realize Three Different Fish Are One Species
• Fish Feces May Maintain Ocean Acid Balance
• Wondrous Creatures Found in Deep Ocean
• Underwater Explorer Jacques Piccard Dies at 86
• Study: 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami Was Biggest in 600 Years
• How Green Is a Reef Burial?
• Starbucks Accused of Wasting Huge Amount of Water
• Hundreds of New Species Found in Australian Reefs
• Research: Octopuses Have Six 'Arms,' Two 'Legs'

OTHER ANIMALS

• Rare Baby Rhino Debuted at Madrid's Zoo
• Scientist: Alien 'Shadow Life' May Already Live on Earth
• How 'Worm Grunting' Drives Earthworms Above Ground
• Tiny Water Bug Able to Survive in Space
• Bigfoot Hoaxers Resurface, Blame California Promoter
• Bigfoot Hoaxers Still On the Lam
• Bigfoot Body Revealed to Be Halloween Costume
• Bigfoot Hunters Reveal Little at Press Conference
• Bigfoot Experts Skeptical of Body in Freezer
• Bigfoot Trackers Say They've Got a Body
• Older Bhutanese Remember Abominable Snowman
• 'Montauk Monster' May Have Been Kidnapped
• 'Montauk Monster' Mystery Gets More Mysterious
• 'Montauk Monster' Has Hamptons in a Tizzy
• Worms Use Calculus to Find Food

PHYSICS

• U.S., European Scientists Race to Find 'God Particle'
• Giant Laser Reactor Unveiled in California
• 'Angels and Demons' Gets Antimatter Partly Right
• Minnesota Students Building House Powered Entirely by Sun
• Fake Vintage Scotch Whisky Exposed by Radiation
• Report: Mafia Invests in Sicilian Wind Farms
• Stephen Hawking Expected to Recover From Infection
• Famed Physicist Stephen Hawking Rushed to Hospital
• Scientists Bend Laser Beams -- and Maybe Lightning
• Friendly 'Death Star' Laser to Recreate Sun's Power
• Navy Chemist May Have Rediscovered 'Cold Fusion'
• Princeton Senior Finds Error in European Supercollider
• Lasers to Create 'Miniature Sun' in Hunt for Clean Energy
• Nuclear-Warhead Upgrade Delayed; Government Labs Forgot How to Make Parts
• Natural Explanation Found for UFOs

REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS

• Huge Burmese Pythons Released in South Carolina
• Venom May Be Komodo Dragon's Lethal Weapon
• Smithsonian, 6 Zoos Launch Project to Fight Frog-Killing Fungus
• Researchers Find Frog That Fits on a Fingertip
• Crocodile Numbers Surge in South Florida
• Fifty New Species Found in New Guinea Mountains
• Two Komodo Dragons Kill Indonesian Man
• Two Komodo Dragons Kill Indonesian Man
• Cute 'Living Fossil' Born in New Zealand After 200 Years
• Prince Charles Meets Lonesome George, Last of His Kind
• Magnets Could Keep Crocodiles Out of Florida Neighborhoods
• Cannibalistic Rattlesnakes Eat Dead Offspring
• Why the 'Giant Snake' Is a Fake
• Giant 'Snake' Spotted in Jungle River
• See-Through Frogs Discovered in Colombian Rain Forest

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