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FOR KIDS: Preventing frog-sicles
Trio of chemicals keeps some frogs from freezing to death
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FOR KIDS: Mud worth more than gold
This ancient muck from far below Antarctica's ice promises to tell a riveting tale about Earth's ancient climate
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Szechuan pepper taps at nerve fibers
The spice makes lips tingle at 50 beats per second
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Horsetail spores don't need legs to jump
Plant's curly, humidity-controlled ribbons propel epic leaps
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FOR KIDS: Caffeine rewires brains of baby mice
Brain changes and memory problems plagued mouse pups whose moms had consumed caffeine during pregnancy
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Avoiding feces may be 'luxury' wild mice can't afford
In the woods, finding food may trump a poopy location
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News In Brief: Fructose may be key to weight gain
Mice that could not make or metabolize the sugar gained less than normal mice
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Meteorite that fell last year contains surprising molecules
Compounds in space rocks like the one that broke up over California may have helped seed life on Earth
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Egypt wasn't built in a day, but it did rise quickly
New timeline of ancient civilization's earliest days finds little time between earliest villages and dominant centralized state
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Babies perk up to sounds of ancient hazards
A snake's hiss and angry voices quickly capture infants' attention
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News in Brief: World's largest volcano lurks beneath Pacific Ocean
The dormant behemoth may rival ones on Mars
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Many genes in dolphins and bats evolved in the same way to allow echolocation
Widespread changes scattered across the genomes of distantly related species crafted the trait
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Device offers promise of no brain tumor left behind
New technique might allow surgeons to identify edges of cancers
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A gut infection can keep mice lean
Bacteria can invade one rodent from another, preventing both from getting fat
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Radio telescope images reveal nebula's heart of carbon
ALMA takes detailed look at elements surrounding dying star
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Rats induced into hibernation-like state
Injection of compound causes animals to slow heartbeat, lower body temperature
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News in Brief: Video game sharpens up elderly brains
Adults over 60 who played for several hours a month beat untrained 20-year-olds in racing game
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News in Brief: Heart disease patients more apt to take one combined pill than many
People stayed on top of their medications better with a 'polypill'
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News in Brief: New fungus species found killing salamanders
A second, hidden chytrid species attacks amphibians
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