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Carbon Nanomaterials: Fine for Fly Food, Bad for Fly Coating
Buckyballs and other nano carbon particles seem to be fine when served as baby food to fruit fly larvae, but some kinds are deadly to the adults when the flies are coated with the infinitesimal stuff
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Scratch That Theory: Itchiness and Pain May Not Share the Same Sensory Pathway
What do itch and pain have in common? Maybe less than researchers previously thought. A team of scientists is learning more about the "itch gene" and how it works separately from pain pathways

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News 8/6/09
Planet-Hunting Spacecraft Shows Its Stuff by Detecting a Known Exoplanet
Kepler's sensitivity to the orbit of a catalogued exoplanet bodes well for its ability to find Earth-like worlds
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50 Years Ago: Making and Forecasting Ocean Waves
Innovation and discovery as chronicled in past issues of Scientific American

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Try a Little Powerlessness—Pitfalls of Self-Control

We admire self-discipline, but could too much control be a bad thing?
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Avian Silence: Without Birds to Disperse Seeds, Guam's Forest Is Changing

The brown tree snake invasion has wiped out birds on Guam and left a forest to survive on its own
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