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• What Is Best in Life? – Conan the Bacterium Reveals Its Recipe for Survival September 5, 2010
  The discovery of long-sought chemical antioxidants in the world’s toughest microbe is reported in a breakthrough study titled “Small-Molecule Antioxidant Proteome-Shields in Deinococcus radiodurans.”... […]
• Moonstruck primates: Owl monkeys need moonlight as much as a biological clock for nocturnal activity September 3, 2010
  PHILADELPHIA -- - An international collaboration led by a University of Pennsylvania anthropologist has shown that environmental factors, like temperature and light, play as much of a role in the... […]
• Death of the "doughnut" September 3, 2010
  Something has been eating Charlie Kerfoot's doughnut, and all fingers point to a European mollusk about the size of a fat lima bean.No one knew about the doughnut in southern Lake Michigan, much less... […]