SoT 99: Are They Good Eating?

Published: May 4, 2013, 7 a.m.

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Can we innoculate babies with \'good\' bacteria to ward of bad bacteria? An ugly, unpalatable living fossil fish gives clues about the origins of limbs. A \'nano-suit\' could protect living specimens in scanning electron microscopes. At what point does a baby become conscious? And more evidence suggests island dwarfism is behind the \'hobbit\' remains discovered on the island of Flores in Indonesia.

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