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Big Apple's Insects Eat Streets Clean Dec 02, 2014

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Researchers working in New York City found that hungry urban arthropods help dispose of tons of edible trash. Allie Wilkinson reports

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<i>Scientific American</i>'s 1930 Football Study Found Little Actual Action Nov 26, 2014

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The Wall Street Journal found in 2010 that an NFL game has just 11 minutes of actual action. Eight decades earlier, Scientific American found just about the same thing

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Looking Back on 40 Years of Lucy Nov 25, 2014

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Paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson's first glimpse of Lucy came on November 24, 1974

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Better Barley Let People Settle Tibetan Plateau Nov 21, 2014

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Importation of a frost-resistant barley from the Fertile Crescent to Tibet some 3,600 years ago is associated with the advent of settlements at 3,000 meters and more above sea level. Cynthia Graber reports

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Worse Than the Bite Nov 20, 2014

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A new study suggests bed bugs can transmit Chagas disease to mice—but the same thing is unlikely to happen in humans. Christopher Intagliata reports

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Semen Protects HIV from Microbicide Attack Nov 14, 2014

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Microbicides that kill HIV in the lab often fail in clinical trials. A study finds that semen may be the culprit. Cynthia Graber reports

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Select Few Can Truly Drink to Their Health Nov 14, 2014

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Alcohol's supposed benefit to the heart may only be available to people with the right genes. Christopher Intagliata reports

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"We Are on the Comet!" Nov 12, 2014

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Some sounds from the Rosetta Mission team today after they succeeded in landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Steve Mirsky reports

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Microbiome Studies Contaminated by Sequencing Supplies Nov 11, 2014

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Nonsterile lab reagents and DNA extraction kits add their own assortment of DNA to microbiome samples. Christopher Intagliata reports

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Young Earth May Have Been All Wet Nov 10, 2014

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Because the chemical signature of water on Earth matches the signature of water in an ancient group of asteroids called eucrites, it means that Earth might have had water much earlier than previously thought. Julia Rosen reports

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