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Basics: Surviving by Disguising: Nature’s Game of Charades
07 09 2010 There are many cases of mimicry in nature, which can be the sincerest form of flattery, the severest form of battery, or the weirdest survival strategy.
  
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Smarter Than You Think: The Boss Is Robotic, and Rolling Up Behind You
06 09 2010 The next frontiers for mobile robots are the office, hospital and home.
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His Corporate Strategy: The Scientific Method
05 09 2010 J. Craig Venter wants to create creatures — bacteria, algae or even plants — to carry out industrial tasks and displace fossil fuels.
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No Risk, Says Leader of Spill Response
05 09 2010 After a new blowout preventer was latched to the wellhead, BP prepared to conduct tests that should allow the company to finish plugging the well.
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Accepted Notion of Mars as Lifeless Is Challenged
04 09 2010 Some scientists suggest carbon-based molecules may have been destroyed before the Viking landers could find them.
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H.I.V. Prevention Gel Hits Snag: Money
04 09 2010 Donors have not yet committed enough money for studies needed to confirm a promising South African trial of a microbicide and to get the product to women.
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Will Aging Chimps Get to Retire, or Face Medical Research?
03 09 2010 A move of some of 186 chimpanzees to a research center in Texas has spurred outrage among animal rights advocates, primate experts and politicians.
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Scientists Square Off on Evolutionary Value of Helping Relatives
02 09 2010 A team of prominent evolutionary biologists at Harvard is trying to demolish the theory that helping your relatives can spread your genes faster than having children of your own.
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Letters: Comfort at Life’s End (1 Letter)
02 09 2010 A letter to the editor.
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Letters: Acupuncture and Science (1 Letter)
02 09 2010 A letter to the editor.
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