Another Super-Earth in the habitable zone?
Sep 13, 2011
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You might have seen: USA Today, "Super-Earth spotted on the edge of habitable zone" Aug 22, 2011; http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2011/08/super-earth-spotted-on-the-edge-of-habitable-zone/1
Weight Loss? Mice Show the Way
Sep 08, 2011
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You might have seen: Science Daily, "In More Socially Engaging Environment, White Fat Turns to Brown, Mouse Study Suggests " Sep 06, 2011; http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110906121242.htm
More Human-Hominid Interbreeding?
Sep 07, 2011
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You might have seen: MSNBC News, "Humans had sex with now-extinct relatives" Sep 05, 2011; http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44400953/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.TmegUGpx9xV
Design of Carbon Fixation
Sep 07, 2011
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You might have seen: BBC News, "Up from the Depths: How Bacteria Capture Carbon in the 'Twilight Zone'" Sep 02, 2011; http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110901142054.htm
Origin of life in pumice
Sep 06, 2011
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You might have seen: BBC News, "Volcanic rock rafts 'could have been cradles of life'" Sep 02, 2011; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14748623
1.76 million-year-old Hand Axes?
Sep 01, 2011
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You might have seen: Yahoo! News, "Ancient humans used hand axes earlier than thought" Aug 31, 2011; http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-humans-used-hand-axes-earlier-thought-171718527.html
Tuned Into Animals?
Sep 01, 2011
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You might have seen: Discovery News, "Humans Hardwired to Tune Into Animals " Aug 29, 2011; http://news.discovery.com/animals/animals-humans-brain-response-110829.html
Pseudogene has function
Aug 31, 2011
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You might have seen: PNAS, "The former annotated human pseudogene" Aug 26, 2011; http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/08/25/1103605108.full.pdf+html?sid=709316aa-b9c9-4a87-9e55-945d3db68212
Wild world: Millions of unseen species fill Earth
Aug 25, 2011
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You might have seen: MSNBC, "Wild world: Millions of unseen species fill Earth" Aug 23, 2011; http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44248318/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.Tlb9YF1x9xV
Ancestors Were Cooking
Aug 25, 2011
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You might have seen: MSNBC, "Ancestors began cooking 1.9 million years ago" Aug 22, 2011; http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44232526/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.Tlb6411x9xV
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