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A group of critics of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) decision to regulate greenhouse…

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Humans, zebrafish, and other vertebrates host “viral fossils” in their DNA

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Virus passed from monkeys to chimps about 22,000 years ago

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Researchers examine a curious case at a Canadian aquarium

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Pups who gnaw on bones develop shorter and thicker skulls

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Highly impulsive individuals have fewer dopamine receptors in a key brain area; pharma starts limiting development of new drugs for central nervous system disorders; your Letters to Science; and more.

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With the cap-and-trade option for carbon reduction buried in the U.S. Senate at least…

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Parts of the Arctic have cooled over the past century, but temperatures have been rising steeply since 1990, according to a summer temperature reconstruction for the past 400 years produced on the base of tree rings from regions beyond the Arctic Circle.

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Among adolescents, visual acuity tests appear to reliably detect vision problems caused by nearsightedness but not farsightedness or astigmatism, according to a new study.

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Tens of thousands of chemical and biochemical experiments may be conducted daily with the use of a microflow system of the size of a credit card, developed by scientists in Poland. The device has already been tested in research on the effectiveness of antibiotic mixtures.

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