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Giant diamond discovered, Hurricane Ike victims return to ruins, and more in our roundup of the week's best news photos.

September 25, 2008
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You don't have to wake up to smell the roses: Exposure to a rose scent means pleasant dreams, while smelling rotten eggs gives dreams a negative cast, researchers found.

September 23, 2008
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Watch as some Hurricane Ike victims in Texas get their first glimpses of the storm damage in their communities.

September 17, 2008
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Fallow deer bucks with the deepest groans are most popular with does, a new study shows.

September 17, 2008
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A small village in India has about a hundred pairs of twins, mostly same sex and 90 percent born in the last 20 years. No one can explain the phenomenon.

September 11, 2008
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Just 48 hours of sunlight can kill germs that cause cholera, typhoid, and other diseases—a discovery that's already helping Kenya's poor.

August 28, 2008
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The fatal cancer that has ravaged Australia's Tasmanian devils is evolving more quickly than the feisty marsupials can fight it.

August 28, 2008
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Dental pulp from a wisdom tooth could be a new source of therapeutic stem cells, sidestepping the ethical concerns of embryonic cells, Japanese researchers claim.

August 27, 2008
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The discovery of a massive virus that suffers from another virus has reignited speculation over whether the agents of infection should be considered life-forms.

August 22, 2008
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Memo to Barack Obama and John McCain: Most undecided voters may already have settled on you based on automatic mental associations.

August 22, 2008
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Bodies with greater symmetry are more appealing to the opposite sex, according to a new study that suggests symmetry is a sign of biological fitness.

August 18, 2008
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In Africa boys as young as 12 and 13 risk mercury poisoning in mines to help provide for their families.

August 14, 2008
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Gene therapies developed to treat muscle-wasting diseases, such as muscular dystrophy, could be used in sports as performance enhancers, experts warn.

August 14, 2008
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Speaking in Senegal and Liberia, the former U.S. president announced initiatives he said could immediately reduce AIDS-related infant mortality and, separately, significantly extend affordable malaria treatment.

August 4, 2008
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Running in sauna-like chambers and the sticky Texas humidity is helping athletes adjust their bodies to perform at their peak during the 2008 summer games, but smog remains a worry.

July 29, 2008

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