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Around the world in 46 days, a bird's journey
Where have you been in the last 46 days? Did you fly around the world? Did you occasionally stop to eat squid and fish?
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Huygens makes history on Titan
History was made earlier today when ESA's Huygens probe successfully landed on Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
Contact: Karina de Castris
Karina.De.Castris@esa.int
European Space Agency
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Dog epilepsy gene
Epilepsy, a condition that affects the nervous system, is more common in dogs than it is in humans.
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
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'Gray hairs' for bird parents
If a parent complains that you're causing gray hairs, you might try saying, "It's natural.
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Finding fear in the whites of the eyes
It's pretty easy to recognize when someone is making a face that says "Holy Cow! This is really scary!"
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202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Tool use by wild monkeys
Researchers have spotted wild capuchin monkeys using stones to dig up edible roots -- a type of tool use that hasn't been seen before in any other wild animals.
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202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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On Mars, rocks record watery past
You may have already seen headlines like, "Mars Rocks Tell Watery Story" and "Rovers Finds History of a Wet, Warm Mars."
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202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Can bison DNA explain the disappearance of sabre-toothed cats?
Sabre-toothed cats, short-faced bears, camels, wild horses, mammoths and many other large creatures disappeared from Siberia, Alaska and Canada at about the same time thousands of years ago.
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scipak@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Your great-great-grand ape? New fossil may be ancestor to all great apes, even humans
All the great apes -- humans, gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans -- have evolved from a single ape ancestor. Researchers called "paleontologists" have discovered a new fossil skeleton in Spain that may now tell us what that ancestor looked like.
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scpiak@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Ancient brown bear migrations
Some of the large mammals that lived in North America during the last ice age, such as brown bears, originally migrated from Siberia.
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scipak@aaas.org
202-326-6440
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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