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Cockfighting and other cultural practices in Southeast Asia could greatly aid the spread of deadly diseases like bird flu.
Laboratory-raised populations of dung beetles reveal a mother's extragenetic influence on the physiques of her sons.
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At age 16, Alexandra Sourakov has her first scientific publication, on the foraging behavior of butterflies.
Silk impregnated with bleach may provide a new way to fight the formidable spores of the anthrax bacterium.
Researchers rediscover a giant insect, thought to have gone extinct a century ago, and plan to reintroduce it to its native island off the coast of Australia.
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