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• Parasites need bacteria to hatch: study suggests new way to battle an intestinal infection 

  The question of which came first, the whipworm or the whipworm egg, leaves out a key player: bacteria. Eggs of the parasitic whipworm, whose...

  07/03/10 by Rachel Ehrenberg · More from publication

• Possible snake shortage looming: researchers alarmed by widespread population declines 

  The world might be facing a new kind of sssilent ssspring if researchers are correct that snake numbers are declining. Out of 17 snake...

  07/03/10 by Susan Milius · More from publication

• For source of time's arrow, consult a good dictionary 

  Language is infused with words and phrases that instill in human consciousness a direction for the flow of time. Not just past and future, but...

  06/19/10 by Tom Siegfried · More from publication

• Scientific observations 

  "I'm part of the generation that read Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke as science fiction authors. And they were both confident in technological...

  06/19/10 by John Gilbey · More from publication

• Science past: from the issue of June 18, 1960 

  USSR USES SABIN VACCINE--The Sabin live polio virus vaccine, developed in the United States but not yet licensed here, is "completely harmless" and...

  06/19/10 · More from publication

• Introducing … 

  Conservation is its own reward, literally. A new species of antpitta, a forest bird, has been discovered and named for American Bird Conservancy...

  06/19/10 · More from publication

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