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Natural Warming One Way to Stop Global Warming? Longest Non-stop Bird Flight Ever Recorded Flaming Steel Amazing Miniature Ears Sneezing at the Sun They Saw the Moon Go Boom Why Milk Won't Whip Aphids and Brussels Sprouts Debunking Common Cancer Myths Learning about Autism One Yawn at a Time Mermaid's Hair and Cancer The Return of Psychedelic Drugs Flu Mist Moles What's With Those Lines on the Transparent Tape? "Good Morning...Dave" A Supersonic Whipper-snapper The Trials and Tribulations of a Lascivious Housefly Breeding Cats and Dogs Virgin Births in Sharks True Blue Inside of You? Small Origins More Salt, Higher Blood Pressure Sewn to Extinction Magnets and Memory Ringed Seals on the Hot Seat You Can't Outrun a Ray Gun The Chilling Effect of Aerosol Cans A Close Shave Super Glue The Earth's Crystalline Inner Core Big Ears Why Do We Love Junk Food? What Good Are Fingerprints? Hard Bread and Soggy Cookies The Sun Just Blew Up! Evolution in Your Mouth Would I or Wouldn't I? Born Leaders, Born Liars I Sing the Brain Electric (1) Fire Beetles First-aid Bubbles Moose, Bears, and Traffic French Fries As Health Food Popcorn Lung Spicy Source of Pain Relief Plant "Chat Lines" Mmmm! Pie A Head for Numbers (1) A Head for Numbers (3) Itching in the Genes Dragon Pushups Thirsty? Try Drinking through Your Skin Wave Power The Sunny Side of Aging We're Both in Here! (Part 1) Pop Quiz! (Sequences) Lab Mice Oil Paintings---Here Today, but What About Tomorrow? Rogue Waves Red Tide Puddings and Custards Turned into a Soupy Mess? Anosmia When the Bed Moves Will All Human Beings Please Stand? Quick, Hide in Here! Underwater Sniffs Plowing Soil Down the Drain Is Organic Good for You? Saying "No" and Growing Up Hypnic Jerks Don't Need No (Nutrition) Education Doc Small Talk Turtles: Cute but Contaminated Comet Water Non-mercury Thermometers There Might Be Mites in Those Eyelashes Bigger Bugs and Breathing Figs and Agaonid Wasps, You Can't Have One without the Other Myopia and Reading What Is a Species? Fast Food = Fat Liver Clouds Shining in the Night Backside Blues Those Mystifying Mammals, the Monotremes Brain Exposed, Wide Awake What's in a Name? Bullies at the Bird Feeder How to Heave Your Guts What Happens to a Dream Deferred? Without Heat, We're Sunk Barcoding Wild Salmon Learning from Ant Societies Scratch-and-sniff Astronauts' Diet What's in Your Ears? Not My Type? Not a Problem The Coldest Time of the Day Healthful Chocolate Ah, There's the Rub Dirty Snow Heating Up Vampire Bat Men of Steel Chocolate Toothpaste Sleeping Birds Sing Phytoremediation The Secret of M&Ms Computer Coach Global Sunscreen Mosquito Repellants--How Do They Work and Are They Safe? Steady, Steady Under Lock and Key Memory and Potato Chips Plastic Blood Down...Set...Penguin The Lingering Ice Age What's So Primary about Primary Colors? The Healthy Green Hue of Liberty Murphy's Toast Super Bandage The Sky Is Falling? Fasting Fathers Werewolves, Relax Runner's Knee A Brief History of Writing Tips for Predicting Baseball Scores Where "Yum" Comes from The Ticking of the Hourglass The Equatorial Weight-loss Program The Future of Males Creating Clots Very, Very Small Oranges An Educated Palate Hypnosis The Trick Inside a Trick Candle Seared Meat Sleeping with Plants Why Windy Cities Don't Fall Down Why Whiskers? Levitating Frogs? How to Win Friends and Influence People Sweet Thirst I Scream, You Scream... Invasion of the Knapweed The Male Fertility Clock Big Blue (Blue Whale) The First Broccoli Bacteria On, In, and Under the Skin Giant Spiders Keeping Time with Quartz What Is It That Saturates a Saturated Fat? Don't Talk Behind My Back--but Why Not? The Truth About Phototropism Hurricanes and Tiny Plants There's Ice, Then There's Ice Feeling Sick, Away from Home Bad Weather for Sea Turtles Mars Attack Biomimetic The Palo Verde--It's Easy Being Green Make a Heliosheath in Your Sink Building a Better MRI Phytoplankton, El Niño, and Global Warming A Hotel Yuk Killed by the Sun The Nightlife of Plants A Sticky Subject Bioreactor Landfill The Science of the Siesta Dining in Space Make Your Own Compass Exploding Water Death by Peanut Octane Numbers From Chemistry Lab to Clothing Monoamniotic Twins Fashion Tips for Lettuce Lose Weight, Pump Less Gas The Big and Bad File (Whale Sharks) How Roots Know to Grow Down Solar-powered Cars Leg Cramps Like Clockwork Tanks, Guns, and Sulpha Powder The Bare Necessities of Bears Nanotech Cleanup Losing Your Mind, Literally Frightening Flushes Why You Should Drink Coffee Inattentional Blindness Backwards Sunspot Tip of the Iceberg Step on a Crack The High-tech Napkin Scorpion Venom for Tumors Winebot! Cooking Under Pressure Iced Lightning Word of the Day: Teh Tarik A World Full of Dinosaurs The Highways of Pain Mosquito Fish Cold Water and Fire Bristlecone Pines Sleeping with One Eye Open Where Have All the Dead Birds Gone? A Magical Glow? The Floating Needle Earthrise---or Is It? Whose Moon? Plague of Frogs You Can Just Crash at My Place Sharper by Far You Sleep Even Less Than You Think Weighted Toys Hurricane Damage That Lasts The First Flowers Facial Expressions Spiders Go Way Back Vigorous Hybrids Ice Fog Drinking Calories, Eating Calories How Do You Find an Alien? How Much Oxygen? A March through an Electromagnetic Arch C-sections and Cavities How Many Times Can You Recycle Paper? Using Genes to Pinpoint Prescriptions Want to Be Smart? Read Growth Hormones and Twins Sleep Less, Weigh More Freeze! High Inflation Octopus Games Plesiosaurs You're Giving Me an Ulcer Apes Can Plan Ahead Superballs! Seeing Yellow I Hear Your Hands Reflection Friendly Fungus Amongus Wasp Hounds Cloak of Invisibility Gone Fishing, Virtually The Big Squeeze A Hearing Test for Moths Lactic Acid's Not the Burn Grapefruit and Medicine Bubble, Bubble It Tips Your Canoe and It's Tidal, Too! The Ocean's Salt Shaker Baking with Carbon Dioxide What's Not to Like About a Lichen Spiders Recycling Secrets of Silk Production Babies Choose the Words They Learn Bugs and Money Floating at the Center of the Earth Housefly Acrobatics The Guilty Bagel Bed Rest, Space Travel, and Bones The Glowing Moon Do Animals Laugh? What Is a Fruit, Really? Statistically Insignificant Violent Dreams Looking for Lunch Madly in Love Why Refrigerators Hum The Case of the Flying Manhole Cover Pain in the Wallet Coral--Plant or Animal? Married Wounds Assassin Bugs The Sound of Pressure The Supermarket Numbers Game Spuds 'n Sand Baby Blues Why Cigarette Smoke is Blue--or White Why the Wind Blows Never Thought to Ask (Planets) Why Salt Makes You Thirsty Zoochory Waking Up and Feeling Sleepy Wannabe Amputee Hands Apart Waiting for a Boy A World without Snow Porcupine Quills True Love and Garlic Landing Strips for Bees Bug Antifreeze Hot Air Duck Panic E.O. Wilson Getting Nowhere, but Feeling Like You're Getting There Fast Batesian Mimicry Science Joke (Light Shift) What's the Point of the Appendix? Snuff Cool Cash Butterfly Farming Cactus Goo Useful Nuggets Help on Horseback Dogs versus Wolves Milky Seas Whale Fall Artsy Math Gag Me with a Sword Can You Taste the Chemicals? Cloudy Vision Great Balls of Fire Putting the Freeze on Brain Freeze The Physics of a Splash Nature May Sharpen Your Attention Span The Amazing Walking Sticks Shh! The Creature with the Extra Brain in Its Gut A Clear Eyeful of Macula A Lime a Day Kept Scurvy Away Running vs. Walking Thanks for the Memories Dry Skin Alpha Scat Making Food Last Longer E-skin L. G. M.? Pass That Flame Kids and Weight Lifting Squares Rule Perfect Chocolate The Tenth Planet? When North Goes South Oort "The Pill"--No Longer For Women Only Bowling Down Bone "Magic" Colic A Wider Rope, Scotty Rubbernecking Fish Insect Molting Cats and Sweets Digital Infection Don't Know Much about Ichthyology Gravitational Microlensing Light and Flowering Shingles When the Sun Burps Physics of the Fall Torpor Birdmaps Incredible Shrinking Pants Walking on Water I Run to Suck Your Blood The Strange Case of the Poisonous Fish A Ping Pong Physics Trick Hagfish Slime Sweating Out Your Bones Don't Touch That Fawn Fasten Your Seatbelt Penny Stack Rosacea A Brown Recluse Bite There Is No Dark Side of the Moon, Really Sleep 1 and Sleep 2 The Sure-thing Principle Up, Up and Away Slicing Up Language Gimme a Brake Food Allergies Pregnancy and Tooth Loss Blindness and Better Hearing Sensing Tsunamis Sweet and Salty Tongue Thrust Hurricanes in California? Not To Refreeze, or Not to Refreeze Programmed to Need Less Sleep Edible Flowers Your Dog's Got Mail Why Wet Sand Sticks Tonsils...Who Needs 'Em? Guppy, James Guppy Fizz Climbing the Walls Earth on the Move Deaths During the Holidays Blue Birds Ain't Blue Strabismus Termites, Those Picky Eaters Split Ends Miles High Flatline? Shockingly, No Sleepless at Your Own Risk Purring High-fructose Corn Syrup The Jalapeño Blues Skin Tags Birds of a Feather The Strange Case of the Mountain-climbing Lava Beans That Go Jump in the Hand Heimlich Pass the Salt Chemical Peels The World's Largest Cockroach Grab a Toga Screeeech! Sugar High: Myth or Fact? Moon Tan? Squished by a Mountain Growing and Growing and Growing and... How a Bee Colony Develops Zinc and Colds The Odds of It Being a Boy How Cold Does It Feel? Eureka! Soup's Ready! Whitecap or Woosh? Dwarf Mistletoe a Huge Problem Smelling in Stereo Driving Under Pressure Speaking with Tongues A Honeybee and Dinosaurs X Misses the Spot Almost Identical Twins Moon Envy Slosh Bed of Nails A Wrinkle Eraser, and More Crunchy, Indigestible Goodness Why Did the Dinosaur Cross the Road? Stomach Stapling Right Ear, Left Ear Small People Joke Evolution Moths Sniffing Out Odors Anchors Away, Me Boys--but How Far? Wise Owls The Town that Fought a Volcano, and Won Skinny Legs and All What's for Lunch? Potassium Science and the Media Memory and Reasoning Bad Hair? Check Your Genes Old and Senseless You've Got a Lot of Space between Your Ears Sweet Revenge Mother-infant Bonding and Addiction Do Other Animals Besides Humans Cry? Premature Sleep Apnea Racial Stereotypes and Memory Flying on a Crutch Gee, a Stationary Satellite Eye Spy The Front End of the Earth Nice Set of Pipes Cold Heart, Warm Hands Smashing Atoms Zippy Aliens The Mystery of Photorespiration Running Rings Around Us Digital Timber! Fungi: Plant, Animal, or Neither? Fried Candy Bars Polly Talks, Therefore He Thinks? Single Fish Female Seeks Good Father Sublimation New Old Digital Music A Fresh Breath of Methane Walkin' and Sloshin' Keep Your Tailgate Shut! Ant Intrigue Where Did Snakes Lose Their Limbs? Pump You Up, Break You Down Dream Fake Remembering Appearances Squirrel vs. Snake Grow Your Own Dentures Dead Zones in the Ocean Plant Power Better Than Barney U-MOS-PQ Data Grids Bright Lights, Little Mirror Infrasound Another Reason to Turn Off the TV The Sleep That Repeats Calling Dr. Darwin Frozen Smoke Drinking and Smoking The Time before Fire Fish Blind Dates Body Dysmorphic Disorder The Mathematical Marriage Predictor A Smooth Wake The Real Final Frontier Swim Like a Fish What Marmosets Think About When They Think About Love Polluted Salmon Aerobic Exercise and Mental Performance A Pain in Third Class Chronic Sinusitis The Higgs Field Harnessing Brain Power Woodpeckers and Fungus It May Burn, But It's Not Your Heart As the Sun Turns The Worms Crawl In, the Worms Crawl Out How to Meet an Eligible Gnat Don't Be Choosy Pareidolia POPs Super Slow Weight Training Nostrils and Roses Why the Earth Is Round Supertasters Beware Plants Arming Themselves Zero, Zip, Zilch The Remains of a Star Pick a Word, Any Word Diver Down Clones Ain't Copies Pessimistic Rats Grey Goo Attack Virtual Reality and Chemotherapy Motional Induction 2 Hey! and then...Ouch! Watering the Vegetables Bombardier Beetle Cyber-diversity Cancer-fighting Veggies A Neato Award (Microneedles) Superglue Say Cheese Scoop That Poop Salt vs. Ice Toxin-loving Trees A Deep Hole in the Pole The Biggest Magnet Ever Why Barns Are Red Stradivarius? Cool! Afterglow Overfishing Whales and the Environment Pens in Space Wolverine--the Weasel Behind the Myth Winter Wheat Retrieve That Dream 'Cause I Eats Me Spinach Chopsticks and Arthritis Driving through a Tunnel The Lowest Note in the Universe Can Men Handle Alcohol Better than Women? The Green Door Why Your Eyes Get Puffy When You Cry Good News: Hot Chocolate Is Good for Your Heart! Wolf Spider Mating Choices Eat, but Don't Drink Up Long Live Us The Anatomy of Fear Do Other Animals Besides Humans Cry? Why Do Corpses Float? Hawaii's Next Volcano The Smell of Dirt Maggot Evolution The Invisible Hand Caregiving Might Mean Longer Life Born to Roam The Lithic Principle Nutrigenomics Flu Shot through the Heart Heat Sensing Pits The Fireproof Balloon Pillar-poo For Self-Confidence, Just Nod Is Heading in Soccer Dangerous? Reentry Heat Beyond the Stinger Ants Out in the Rain The Royal Jelly Silk Making New Ozone The Fermi Paradox One Step Closer to Living Longer Ferocious Fish Fatherless Honeybees Digestion and Migration Nightcap Emotions and the Common Cold Ant Attack! Chirp It Up Music and Verbal Memory The Sniffing Brain Frog Serenade Do Bacteria Build Resistance to Antibiotic Ointments? Male Zeus Bugs Get a Free Ride Surprise at Stonehenge The Mighty Oxpecker Peeling the Banana Rabbits Down Under Why Giving Birth Hurts DNA Dirt Canine Complusive Disorder Getting the Stink Out of Sewage Beetlemania So Long, Sun Getting Rid of Cavities The Eye of the Dung Beetle All Muscles Are Not Created Equal Shopping and Hummingbirds Swimming with Sharks Good Germs Lactose Not-so-intolerant Adolescent Addictions Why Dogs Bark Elvis in a Burrito Snoring and Cognition Is E.T. Trying to Phone? Coral Reefs The Oldest Human Footprints Making Contact Can Bacteria Get Sick? My Ouch Ain't Yours Death-defying Turtles Chicago and Asthma A Brief History of Eyeglasses Dither Attack of the Earthworms Sunburn through a Window? Sunscreen from Soybeans To the Moon...or Not? Older Means Wiser for Elephants A Deafened Heart How High Does a Fly Fly? Broken Bones Send in the Belugas New Moon The Trashy side of DNA Earwigs Bloody Body Burden Building Bridges Potholes The Coldest Spot on Earth? What Is Crohn's Disease? The Youngest Crater Bottle of Pop Adding Up Missed Sleep Is It Always Colder on Top of Mountains? Learning about Irradiation Gorgons. For Real Reindeer Games Progesterone's Effects on Paternal Behavior Adapting to Climate Change Extra Frog Legs Jenny on the Web Water Deprivation and Eating Invasive Species and Parasites Dangers of Extreme Biking Quaoar The Happy Couple When Wine Turns to Vinegar Can You Recognize a Plant Cell? Why Icicles Are Wavy Broken Hearted Zebra Fish What a Worm and Old People Have in Common Dirty Hands Onions Are Toxic to Your Pets Bat Spit Bedtime Blues The Most Successful Species on Earth Kissing Cousins What's That in the Sky? Do Cats Eat Spiders? How Eggs Get Their Color Los Ant-geles Snail Love Darts The Parts of Metabolism Is Your Dog Wimpier than Your Cat? The Prefrontal Cortex with Age Get It? How Tall Are You? Here, Boy! Duct Tape and Warts The Earth's Mantle Electrolysis Why Lips Go Dry Males Rule in Costa Rican Wasp Species Mind Reading Runny Nose How Cells Get Around Sea Otter Sickness Euro Itch Jamming A Moment of Science Face the Gator It Pays to Be an Optimist Falling Leaves Caterpillar vs. Plant Buckminster Fuller and His Geodesic Dome Frozen Fish Infants Get Cues From Adult Eyes Smoking and Cancer in Cats Are Tomboys Born or Made? How Far the Stars? When the Sky Turns Green Steering a Balloon Is It Brain Death or a Coma? Ancient Goodies The Hottest of the Hot The Original Ant Farm Low Cholesterol Leads to Psychological Problems? Yogurt Gecko Glue Bloodshot Eyes West Nile Trouble Chameleons Conserving Water Positions of the Uterus Bang! Iron Loading Something I Ate Cinnabark Genetically Modified Plants and Weeds Chain Letter Whole Grains A Mechanical Leech? Sibling Rivalry in the Womb Flying Snakes Chili Takes Out Other Flavors As Happy As a Pig Baby Teeth A Cottonwood, a Beaver, and a Beetle Ride the Sperm Train How Do Paper Towels Absorb Water? What is Endometriosis? The Golden Snooze? A Romantic Way to Say Shut Up Is Babbling a Precursor to Language? MRI HPV Hemorrhoids Dogs Can Be Gross Wisconsin Jellyfish Cows and Waterbeds? Fluff up the Down The Nocebo Effect? Stalk-eyed flies Sweet and Sour Narcissism and Violence The Search for the Ivory Billed Woodpecker Hoofing It Colliding Galaxies A Healthy Famine? Ways We Date Flat Worms: The Earthworm Predators Floating Clouds What is a Pap Smear All About? Bouncing Balls Depo-provera Bitumen Hitch-kick The Hairy Truth Is Microwaving Safe for Food? Metal in the Microwave Drugs in Our Waters Seatbelts Cooked Tomatoes are Better than Raw Ones? The Male Biological Clock Titanium The Force of an Alligator's Bite Mood and Cognition Urban Weather Systems Does Charlie Know He's a Chimp? Ode to the Zipper Do Bugs Sleep? Kidney Stones Freedom at Sea Take a Hike and Improve Your Memory Scarlet Fever A Band of Birds North Star The Color of the Universe Smells and Colors A Caterpillar Addiction Green Iguanas on Anguilla How Humans Are Like Rats Flu Virus: The Unwelcome Guest Agent Orange Getting Fatter All the Time I'll take Earwax for 300, Alex The Magnificent Pompeii Worm The Miracle Water Diet Pickles and Ice Cream The Sad Tale of Fluffy the Goldfish Running on Caffeine Why Build and Igloo? To Sign or Not to Sign? Estrogen and Breathing Albinism Can the Dead Move? Walking and Breathing Small Talk Beetles that Collectively Seduce Male Bees Borborygmi Sunrise, Sunset What the Heck Is a Venus Fly Trap? Animal Scandals Lose Weight Fast The Moving Thumb Microwave Ovens A-bomb Bombproof Luggage Container Living in an Ice Age Are There Six Fingers in Our Future? How Polar Bears Keep Their Cool Tricking Your Ears Voices on Tape Computer Personalities A Knee-slapper Butterflies and Their Magnetic Compasses Left-handedness and Memory Air Bags: Much Ado About Nothing Cheating Cheetahs Gas Masks Spots and Stripes When Good Bananas Go Bad When Winter Is the Best Driving Season A World Without Insects Babies 'n Honey Baboons and Abstract Thought Twin Towers Rifles and the Law Processing Moral Dilemmas Dyslexia Zero Gravity, Does It Exist? The Acoustics of Laughter Anthrax Airplane Contrails Flower Power Packing for the Desert Keeping Sunflowers in the Dark Cyanide Bombs Black Boxes Rejection Leads to Agression Another Bad Reason to Start Smoking Tennis Courts Another Good Reason to Go for Thai Food How Two-way Mirrors Work Honeybees and Cavities Botox Spinning Our Planet Caterpillars That Fool Ants Why Nuclear Waste Is Like a Birthday Party A Scientist in the Locker Room Are Humans and Fungi Distant Cousins? Hit Me with Your Best Shot Baseball, Tar, and the Scientific Method To Immunize or Not to Immunize... Cockroach Pheromones Checking Internet Medical Facts Can Cats Eat Dog Food? Jellyfish in Motion The Truth About Bugs Amazing Sea Monkeys How Safe Is Bungee Jumping? Hot Flash Killer Smog The Straight-up Tower of Pisa? Lanugo Hairs American Pi Mosquito Repellants--How They Work, and Are They Safe? Male Nipples--Why? Put Some Ice on It Math Anxiety To Sniff or to Smell? Smoking and Women Cold Feet and Hot Wings The Secrets of Sandpaper A Little Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing One More Reason to Exercise Zits Versus Hairy Faces Rocky Weather Forecasting How Now, Mad Cow The Muffin Maker's Secret Cruise Control A Cooler for the Sahara Don in Love Laser Gun Mosquitoes in Winter Tips for Predicting Baseball Scores The Future of Males Fighting Off Bug Diseases AMOS Smackdown The Deadliest Waves How's Your Fastball? A Tale of the Supernatural Motion Sickness Dinosaur Cloning Prehistoric Toothpicks Matches Why Doesn't Your Heart Get Tired? I Scream, You Scream... What Is Fire? The Anatomy of a Flame Prozac The Physics of Surfing Police Radar Guns Don't Try This at Home Where's Bonnie? Monoamniotic Twins What's a Fever For? Anatomy of a Fever Fevers and Fluids Holdover from the Icebox Days Why Fluorescent Lights Are Cooler Paper Cuts Oy Vein! (Varicose Veins) Forry, Wrong Number When a Boy's Voice Changes