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  1. Tech

    Listen and learn

    Sound experts give noisy classrooms a failing grade.

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  2. Animals

    Bee Disease

    Scientists may have found one reason why honeybees have been disappearing from the United States.

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  3. Planets

    Planet Survivor

    Scientists have discovered a planet outside our solar system that survived the rapid growth of its parent star.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    The buzz about caffeine

    Is caffeine bad or good for you? The answer is: a little of both.

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  5. Animals

    Color-changing bugs

    A species of South American beetle changes color from shiny gold to dull red—and back again.

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  6. Physics

    Road bumps

    Scientists have discovered why dirt roads develop ridges that make for a bumpy ride.

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  7. Environment

    Lessons from a lonely tortoise

    In the Galapagos Islands, scientists are struggling to save some of the most endangered creatures in the world.

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  8. Animals

    A Wild Ferret Rise

    Once nearly extinct, wild black-footed ferrets are making a comeback in Wyoming.

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  9. Animals

    Long nose, hopeful future

    A chainsaw-nosed creature of the sea finally earns some protection.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Toxic Dirt + Avian Flu = Science Fair Success

    Fifteen-year-old Nolan Kamitaki shows what it takes to become one of America's top young scientists.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    The electric brain

    Electrical implants allowed a brain-damaged man to talk, eat, and move again.

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  12. Chemistry

    Super Sticky Power

    Scientists have combined the sticking power of geckos and mussels to create an extrasticky material.

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