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TechSnow Traps
A prize-winning science fair project focuses on how snow fences create snowdrifts and increase water supply.
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TechSqueezing Oil from Old Wells
Adding certain bacteria to oil wells may allow recovery of crude oil that pumps can't normally extract.
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AnimalsStaying Away from Sick Lobsters
Lobsters detect and shun potential roommates that are infected with a virus.
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LifeAssembling the tree of life
Scientists are organizing knowledge of all living things into a single evolutionary tree.
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Health & MedicineGerm zapper
A compound found in nature kills certain bacteria in a new way.
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AnimalsMissing moose
By studying population patterns, scientists hope to figure out why moose in some areas are in trouble.
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SpaceBlast from the Past
Pieces of an ancient asteroid that created a 70-kilometer-wide crater survived the blast.
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AnimalsNew Monkey Business
A rare, recently discovered monkey differs from other known types of monkeys.
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TechShape Shifting
A futuristic technology aims to have a pile of tiny, robotic beads arrange itself into different shapes.
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HumansIf only bones could speak
The shape of fossil spine bones suggests that ancient human ancestors could speak.
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PlanetsThe Way a Comet Crumbles
Astronomers are getting a close look at a comet that's falling apart as it nears the sun.
By Emily Sohn