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  1. Teacher’s Questions for Whiskers

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  2. Animals

    By a whisker

    Hardly a fad: Some facial hair serves important functions, scientists find.

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  3. Physics

    Crime-solving camera

    Criminals can’t hide their crimes with paint anymore, thanks to a lighting trick and an ordinary camera.

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  4. Space

    The first moon walker

    Forty-five years ago, an American astronaut climbed down the ladder of his lunar landing module — the Eagle — and became the first human to touch the moon’s surface.

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  5. Humans

    The origins of mummies

    Scientists speculate on why ancient South Americans started preserving their dead.

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  6. Animals

    Monkeys’ mistake detector

    Specific brain cells in macaques respond to fellow animal’s error.

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  7. Climate

    Hot summer for a cold island

    A rare heat wave rolled over Greenland in July, thawing its ice and snow.

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  8. Fossils

    New Jurassic flier

    Amazingly well-preserved fossil depicts a novel flying reptile from the age of dinosaurs.

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  9. Animals

    Python-palooza!

    Monster-sized Burmese python bearing record-number of eggs retrieved in the Florida Everglades.

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  10. Physics

    Elephant songs

    Scientists figure out how elephants make their low, low rumble.

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  11. Genetics

    DNA hints at ancient cousins

    Scientists find evidence of an extinct humanlike species within modern-day Africans.

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  12. Microbes

    Surprising rabies resistance

    Amazon villagers survive deadly disease carried by vampire bats.

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