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March 8, 2011Health
County-Level "Diabetes Belt" Carves a Swath through U.S. South: Going past national statistics, a new map shows more than 640 counties in mostly southern states had higher-than-average rates of diabetes, suggesting the need for more targeted prevention...; Katherine Harmon

August 23, 2012Biology
Do Post-Market Drug Trials Need a Higher Dose of Ethics?: Patients who sign up for trials testing more than one already approved intervention do not always know if one is being tested for harmful side effects; Katherine Harmon

January 20, 2011Evolution
Germinators: Amoeba Farmers and Other Organisms That Grow Their Own Food [Slide Show]: New research shows how a social slime mold species seeds its own food, giving ants, termites and other fungal harvesters steep competition for surprising agriculture adaptations; Katherine Harmon

August 28, 2009Environment
A Decade of New Species Discoveries in the Himalayas [Slide Show]: The remote eastern Himalayas--home to tiny deer and big vipers--have offered enterprising researchers a wealth of new species to document and describe; Katherine Harmon

October 12, 2009Evolution
Unusual Spider Species Passes Up Live Prey for Plants: A primarily vegetarian jumping spider gets ahead by taking advantage of ancient ant–acacia mutualism; Katherine Harmon

May 25, 2011The Sciences
Clean Dirty Water with the Sun: Bring Science Home: Activity 18; Katherine Harmon

August 1, 2010The Sciences
Tools for Life: What's Next for Cells Powered by Synthetic Genomes?: The ability to make cells with artificial genomes bodes well for basic biology; David Biello and Katherine Harmon; August 2010; 10.1038/scientificamerican0810-17

February 25, 2009The Sciences
What's the Point of Volcano Monitoring?: Some GOPers mock funding of volcano observation programs, but an expert says volcanoes are potentially deadly and should be watched, lest they blow their tops; Katherine Harmon

May 29, 2009Health
Can You Lose Your Fingerprints?: A Singaporean cancer patient was detained by U.S. customs because his cancer treatment had made his fingerprints disappear. A forensic expert explains other ways people can lose--intentionally and unintentionally--one of their unique identifiers...; Katherine Harmon

May 24, 2010Evolution
Mineral Isotopes Could Reveal Whether Dinosaurs Were Cold- or Warm-Blooded: A new method allows researchers to find the internal body temperature of long-dead animals by examining chemical bonds in their teeth or bones. Will dinosaurs be next?; Katherine Harmon

August 21, 2010Mind & Brain
Autism Might Slow Brain's Ability to Integrate Input from Multiple Senses: A new study found that kids with autism were slower to integrate stimuli from different senses, providing possible explanations for behavioral differences; Katherine Harmon

September 16, 2010Biology
Do You Know When You're Wrong? Gray Matter Shows Introspective Ability Is Not Black and White: Differences in people's ability to gauge their own accuracy may be linked to having more volume--and more connections--in the prefrontal cortex; Katherine Harmon

September 28, 2010Health
Medical Research Images Frequently Reveal Unrelated Abnormalities in Study Subjects: Researchers lack a standard about when to disclose unanticipated findings to study participants and their doctors, raising ethical--and financial--dilemmas; Katherine Harmon

July 19, 2012Biology
Sequencing of Single Sperm Could Reveal New Infertility Causes: Sperm, decoded: a technological achievement parses the genomes of individual sperm cells, showing a new way to study reproductive medicine and hereditary cancer; Katherine Harmon

March 16, 2009Evolution
Dino Mites: A Diminutive Dinosaur in North America and a Rare Mass Death of Young Relatives in China: Two discoveries reveal new details about small birdlike dinosaurs; Katherine Harmon

September 1, 2009Health
Sore Throat on Aisle 4: Retail Clinics Match Quality of Doctor's Office: Nurse-only medical clinics in stores do just as well treating minor afflictions as visits to a full-fledged physician--and boast lower costs and no need for appointments; Katherine Harmon

October 9, 2009Evolution
Bye-Bye Birdie: New Look at Archaeopteryx Shows It Was More Dinosaur Than Bird: Microscopic analysis of Archaeopteryx fossils shows that the animal grew to maturity like a dinosaur rather than a modern bird; Katherine Harmon

November 16, 2009Health
Renewed Hope for an AIDS Vaccine: Despite questions, the Thailand trial spreads optimism; Katherine Harmon

December 3, 2009Health
Cancer Cells?: Brain Tumor Numbers Steady Despite Increased Mobile Phone Use: Amidst all the chatter about cancer, a new study finds that even as mobile phone use surged in northern Europe, the instance of brain tumors stayed about the same; Katherine Harmon

October 12, 2011Public Health
How Black Death Kept Its Genes but Lost Its Killing Power: The newly sequenced genome of the plague-causing bacterium Yersinia pestis suggests human adaptations are what have kept this disease in check; Katherine Harmon

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