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A replica of the pinky bone fragment found in a Siberian cave. Researchers used the bone bit to extract and sequence the genome of a girl who lived tens of thousands of years ago. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology hide caption
Wednesday
Two men from northwestern Missouri became ill after tick bites infected them with a previously unknown virus. iStockphoto.com hide caption
People walk in the storm surge from Hurricane Isaac along Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans. Isaac was later downgraded to a tropical storm as it continued to grind its way through the Gulf Coast, dropping torrential rain and generating dangerous storm surges. Gerald Herbert/AP hide caption
A Beechcraft airplane sprays insecticide over Dallas early Monday morning to curb the spread of West Nile virus. LM Otero/AP hide caption
Tuesday
How much longer could Junior really stay in there? Olivier Lantzendorffer/iStockphoto.com hide caption
Research suggests basic forms of learning are possible while snoozing. iStockphoto.com hide caption
Ted and Gale Franklin live in Leroy Township, Pa., where people have been dealing with flammable gas puddles and tainted well water. Becky Lettenberger/NPR hide caption