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    Opinion: Seafood needs better science
    Improved assessment needed to protect Gulf seafood consumers after the oil spill, say two environmental health scientists


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    Book Review: The Wolf's Tooth
    A canid biologist considers a new book about the ecological impacts of returning America's predators to their ancestral lands


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    Flies obey unique flight rules
    Unlike other insects, flies use the presence of horizontal edges to control their flying altitude


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    New virus behind cancer, MS?
    After uncovering HPV's role in cancer, Harald zur Hausen is investigating another virus-disease relationship


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    Bacteria sniff each other out
    When sensing the presence of other species, bacteria meet the textbook definition for olfaction


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    Seeking top innovations of 2010
    Did you work on or use a new technology that could transform the field? If so, enter it into our annual contest


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    The Prometheus Project
    Continue reading from the first book in series of young adult novels that's being hailed as science's answer to Harry Potter


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    Opinion: Louisiana shuns science
    Officials push sand berm plan to protect Gulf Coast from oil, as researchers caution against the move


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    Try acting like a scientist
    Actor Alan Alda teaches a new generation of researchers how to communicate with the public


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    Opinion: The oil's stain on science
    An ecosystem biologist discusses how the effort to assess the oil spill's damage is stifling independent research


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    The Prometheus Project
    Read an excerpt from the first book in series of young adult novels that's being hailed as science's answer to Harry Potter


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    Q&A: EU science under Belgium
    The new EU president talks priorities, economic recovery, and how they plan to make scientists' lives easier over the next six months


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    Opinion: Erase science's blacklist
    A researcher recently found guilty of misconduct argues that he -- and all other penalized scientists -- still have a valuable place in science


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    Tickling the NIH ivories
    The grand piano in the National Institutes of Health's Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Center fills the facility with music


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    Dining with frogs
    A molecular gastronomer and environmental artist team up to make diners reconsider the source of their food and the impacts of their eating habits


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    Viral cause for prostate cancer?
    Prostate cancer is increasingly looking like an infectious disease, a new study shows, and may be sexually transmitted


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    Brain paintings
    An artist and a neuroscientist are plumbing the depths of human perception to create works of art that explore quirks in how we view the world


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    Web genomics exposes ethics gaps
    While connecting SNPs to playful traits such as curly hair and optimism, 23andMe reveals loopholes in the regulation of genomics research


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    The Youth Pill
    A new book explores the science behind the quest to extend healthy life span


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    Strike hurts Puerto Rico science
    Researchers complain as University of Puerto Rico strike exceeds 50 days


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    Crystals in lab, rock on stage
    Danish rock musician Johan Olsen is just as excited about protein crystals as he is about his band's new album


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    War zone
    An invasive ant defies the rules of social evolution by conquering California with battles between enormous colonies that act like separate species


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    Fate of science "hero" uncertain
    Senator Arlen Specter, long-time champion of biomedical research, is facing tough reelection battle


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    Q&A: Science spouses
    Rosemary and Peter Grant on this week's Kyoto Prize Symposium, spending three decades together on the Galapagos, and possible names for the potential new species they discovered


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    Cuba invited to US conference
    A Cuban pharmacologist and genetics expert was a speaker at a Puerto Rico biotech conference co-organized with the FDA


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    Opinion: Encourage alternatives II
    We don't talk enough about how scientists can excel outside the lab


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    Woes hit foundation funds
    Researchers are facing legal snags when applying for grants from non-profits


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    Fraud: who is responsible?
    Recent cases remind us that research misconduct is a persistent threat, says a journal editor


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    Lonely beetles make more sperm
    The strategy may help males make up for being bad fighters for females


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    11 science lessons -- from war
    Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's 11 lessons of war apply to scientific research, according to a biologist