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May 17, 2008
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Baby Supernova
Science Buzz Scientists discover the most recently exploded supernova in our galaxy. By "baby," they mean it exploded 26,000 years ago (Baby Supernova would also make a good band name).
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Ug99
Science Buzz The U.N. warns that a quarter of the world's wheat could be threatened by a new, "highly pathogenic strain" of wheat stem rust called Ug99. The scary what blight strain was first detected in Iran and may be making its way towards the bountiful wheat fields of Asia and the Near East.
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Platypus Genome
Science Buzz Scientists have mapped the bizarre DNA of the duck-billed platypus. Citing it as a key to understanding all mammalian evolution, scientists noted the platypus also has 10 different sex chromosomes, instead of just X or Y, and say it may finally solve the question about the origin of the scrotum.
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Lab Meat
Science Buzz PETA is offering $1 million to anyone who can bring lab-made meat to the market by 2012. That's right: They want to spare animals via man-made meat. Of course, the ability to grow meat in the lab, providing the FDA would approve it, would be so wildly lucrative that $1 million would seem like a pittance in comparison.
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