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New estimates suggest roads partly to blame for declining species
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New Tomatoes Tolerate Salt
Extra gene might allow farming on salt-damaged fields -
Satellite Shutdown Stirs Controversy
Ten-year stream of climate change data to end next week -
Cowbirds Hijack Forest Nests
Forest nests suffer more than those in fields -
Japan to Allow Stem Cell Research
Guidelines expected to be approved this week -
What About a Smart Banana?
Poll questions Brits about biotech products -
College Fined Over Virus Risk
Researchers at Imperial College created a potentially deadly hybrid virus -
Now You See Element 118, Now You Don't
Berkeley Lab retracts 1999 report of heaviest element -
Skulls Suggest Two New World Migrations
Measurements attempt to trace ethnic origins, timing of migrations -
Sad Poets' Society
Abundance of the word 'I' in poetry matches suicidal tendencies -
Segmentation Gets Pieced Together
Two new studies help clear up a universal process in the animal world -
Pi Keeps 'Em Guessing
Mathematicians inch toward proving that the digits are truly random -
Of Faces and Races
Neuroscientists link a well-known social phenomenon to an area in the brain -
Ice Man Was Killed From Behind
New scan reveals arrowhead, suggesting a drawn-out and painful death -
Lionesses Are Democrats
Long-term study shows that female lions in a pride have equal numbers of cubs -
Proteomics Takes a Leap
New protein chips analyze thousands of proteins simultaneously -
New Peptides Pack More Punch
Self-assembling antimicrobials pierce bacterial cell walls -
The Stammering Brain
Anatomy sets stutterers apart -
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Yellowstone's Geologic Recycling Program
New study suggests rocks are "reused" in regular giant eruptions -
India Invites Pakistani Scientists
Gesture at eve of summit hoped to help improve relationships -
Particle Physicists Chart the Future
Plans for $6 billion electron-positron collider reach critical mass at Snowmass -
World Starts Taming the Greenhouse
In marathon session, 178 countries reach agreement on Kyoto Protocol -
Our Left-Handed Cousins
Genes, developmental anomalies play a role in chimps' handedness -
Ubiquitin Strikes Again
Omnipresent and versatile protein may act as "DNA stopwatch"
