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Date: January 2010
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The sperm of polygamous deer mice clump together to beat other sperm to the egg (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) |
JAN 29, 2010
  
Sleeping birds, sperm wars, looking for water on distant planets, and the value of "most".
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FEB 1, 2010 Cooperative Sperm
FEB 4, 2010 Value of Most
FEB 8, 2010 Sun Glints
FEB 10, 2010 Sleeping Birds
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A listener asks: Do toilet seats spread disease? (Jupiter Images) |
JAN 22, 2010
MEDICINE: Alzheimer's in the eye, artificial red blood cells, and a microbial Achilles' heel. Also: do toilet seats spread disease?
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Does gelatin really come from cow hooves? (Mark Fickett/Wikimedia Commons) |
JAN 15, 2010
THE FOOD SHOW - High school students expose food fraud in New York City. Does gelatin really come from cow hooves? And the hormone behind eating when you're already full.
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JAN 18, 2010 Food Fraud Fighters
JAN 21, 2010 Gelatin Source
JAN 28, 2010 Eating When Full
JAN 29, 2010 Food Roundup
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The practice of mountaintop removal mining carries long-term risks for the environment and for human health (J.W. Randolph/Wikimedia Commons) |
JAN 8, 2010
Mountaintop removal mining's devastating effects on the environment, ancient Martian lakes, an herbal disappointment, fish that punish cheaters, and reading and writing in the brain.
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JAN 19, 2010 Cheating Fish
JAN 20, 2010 Martian Lakes
JAN 25, 2010 Disappointing Ginkgo
JAN 26, 2010 Mountaintop Removal Mining
JAN 27, 2010 Writing the Brain
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Over the past thirty years, the prevalence of nearsightedness in the United States has risen dramatically. (Jupiter Images) |
JAN 1, 2010
People with Alzheimer's disease get less cancer, nearsightedness is on the rise in the U.S., why the bones of the skull don't become brittle, and how an ingredient in clown make-up could protect astronauts from radiation.
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JAN 1, 2010 Boron Nanotubes
JAN 6, 2010 Alzheimers and Cancer
JAN 12, 2010 Failing Vision
JAN 15, 2010 Bone Roundup
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