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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Losing life’s variety: 2010 is the deadline set for reversing declines in biodiversity, but little has been accomplished
Hogan’s noise: A cosmologist suggests a novel way to uncover the nature of spacetime on the smallest scales

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Top Stories | March 10

FOR KIDS: Whales may round up squid for dinner
Tracking sperm whale movements suggests groups herd to hunt.
Mate et al., Oregon State University Marine Mammal Institute
FOR KIDS: Charged cars that would charge
Electric vehicles could give power to the electricity grid
FOR KIDS: Making light of sleep
Teens are prone to sleep problems, but a little sunshine could help.
FOR KIDS: Message in a dinosaur's teeth
Giant dino that was T. rex rival may have spent most of its time in the water.
FOR KIDS: The hottest soup in New York
A quark-gluon plasma reaches the highest temperature ever measured in a lab and could help in understanding the earliest universe.

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FOR KIDS: The hottest soup in New York

A quark-gluon plasma reaches the highest temperature ever measured in a lab and could help in understanding the earliest universe.

FOR KIDS: Cold, colder and coldest ice

Electric charge can change the temperature at which water freezes.

FOR KIDS: The case of the hairy eyeball

Pet tarantulas don't need venom to express irritation.

FOR KIDS: Physics of running bared

Running without shoes softens the blow.

FOR KIDS: Pipefish power from mom

When pop's a shrimp of a fish, mom passes on extra protein boost

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Math Trek The mutual inspiration of art and mathematics
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