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How Breast Cancer Genes Work

Though we may talk of cancer as one disease, skin cancer has little in common with pancreatic cancer and breast cancer is something else entirely

Still life: Fall chum

For Salmon Fishermen, It’s Fall Chum to the Rescue

For the Yup’ik people of Alaska, fall chum is the answer to a troubled fishing season and a link to the outside world

The toothache tree of North America, Zanthoxylum clava-herculis

Chinese Spices Hijack Your Taste Buds

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Mistakenidentosaurus Becoming a Thing of the Past

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News Flash: You May Be Boring Your Dog

The crocodile, last of the crurotarsans

Dinosaur vs. Crocodile: Who Wins?

The Large Magellanic Cloud, NASA

Loud and Clear Department: Intergalactic Telegrams

Condors can soar 150 miles in a day on their giant wings. The birds often fly for hours at a time with hardly a flap of their wings

Condors in a Coal Mine

California’s lead bullet ban protects condors and other wildlife, but its biggest beneficiaries may be humans

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Science to Religion: Can’t We All Just Get Along?

Peacock flounder (Bothus lunatus) near Coki Beach, St. Thomas, USVI

Wild Things: Life as We Know It

The waters around the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (yellow and blueback fusiliers) hold some of the world's most pristine coral reefs

Our Imperiled Oceans: Victory at Sea

The world’s largest protected area, established this year in the remote Pacific, points the way to restoring marine ecosystems

1957: A half century ago, tourists in Key West routinely caught goliath grouper (the big fish with the big mouths) and large sharks (on the dock).

Our Imperiled Oceans: Seeing Is Believing

Photographs and other historical records testify to the former abundance of the sea

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The Bugs Who Flew Too Much

This invasion would have driven even Alfred Hitchcock psycho

Hawaii-based journalist Christopher Pala has traveled the world covering various topics and is also the author of, The Oddest Place on Earth: Rediscovering the North Pole

Christopher Pala on “Victory at Sea”

An Aztec figurine holds a cacao pod

Globalization: Good for Local Cuisines?

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The Universe Has Its Secrets; We’ve Got Science Rap

Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt examines traffic science and psychology

The Truth About Traffic

Author Tom Vanderbilt Shows Why Cars and People Don’t Mix

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Pesticide Resistance: Harder Than It Looks

Mushroom-Cloud Spicy: The Link Between Fiery Foods and Fungi

Galileo

Galileo, Reconsidered

The first biography of Galileo Galilei resurfaces and offers a new theory as to why the astronomer was put on trial

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