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Foresnic Anthropologists Aim to Identify Bodies in Cemetery Scam

Scientific American - Posted: July 10th, 2009, 8:05pm EDT

pAfter police were tipped off about potential wrongdoing at a historic cemetery outside Chicago, they found a large back lot strewn with hundreds of cast-off coffins, smashed sepulchers and old bones. a href=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=foresnic-cemetery-scam[More]/a

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Forensic Anthropologists Aim to Identify Bodies in Cemetery Scam

Scientific American - Posted: July 10th, 2009, 8:05pm EDT

pAfter police were tipped off about potential wrongdoing at a historic cemetery outside Chicago, they found a large back lot strewn with hundreds of cast-off coffins, smashed sepulchers and old bones. a href=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=foresnic-cemetery-scam[More]/a

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Shrinking Sea

Scientific American - Posted: July 10th, 2009, 6:00pm EDT

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Shrinking Sea: Over Half of the Aral Sea Has Vanished in Three Years

Scientific American - Posted: July 10th, 2009, 6:00pm EDT

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Sweet smell of success follows reintroduction of stinking hawks-beard to U.K.

Scientific American - Posted: July 10th, 2009, 2:15pm EDT

pAfter going extinct 30 years ago in the U.K, a rare plant called the stinking hawks-beard (Crepis foetida) has returned its former homelands. The successful reintroduction could offer lessons for the reintroduction of other extant species. a href=http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=sweet-smell-of-success-follows-rein-2009-07-10[More]/a

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Birth Defect Study Casts Doubt on Phthalate Fears

Scientific American - Posted: July 10th, 2009, 12:45pm EDT

pHypospadias, one of the most common birth defects among baby boys, apparently is not increasing in the United States, casting doubt on whether boys are harmed by phthalates and other endocrine-disrupting chemicals thought to trigger reproductive abnormalities./ppResearchers have reported that the hypospadias rate stayed the same in New York State between 1992 and 2005. An earlier study also found no increase in California boys between 1984 and 1997./p a href=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=phthalate-fears-questioned[More]/a

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Shell Shock: Turtle Development Secret Revealed

Scientific American - Posted: July 10th, 2009, 9:55am EDT

p[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.]/ppIt sounds like the title to a Rudyard Kipling tale: how the turtle got its shell. But itrsquo;s actually a question that has puzzled scientists. After all, no other animal, living or extinct, has a similarly constructed bony shield surrounding its body. Scientists had thought that, over evolutionary time, small bony plates fused with the animalrsquo;s skin. But a new study published July 10th in the journal Science offers a different pathway./p a href=http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=shell-shock-turtle-development-secr-09-07-10[More]/a

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