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  1. Earth

    Quake forms island in Arabian Sea

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  2. Humans

    The last common ancestor of humans and chimps probably wasn’t much like either

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  3. Materials Science

    Chip curves space-time

    A manipulated material could help model general relativity in the lab.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Conversations with my baby

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  5. Life

    Dangerous Digs

    By properly managing a tumor cell’s microenvironment, cancer researchers are making cancer something people live with, not die from.

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  6. Climate

    Humans found guilty in climate change

    International panel’s confidence increases that society is responsible for global warming.

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  7. Oceans

    Greenland Sea warming faster than world ocean

    Deep water temperature of Greenland Sea rises 0.3 degrees Celsius in 30 years.

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  8. Animals

    ‘World’s ugliest animal’ contest took a blobfish out of water

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  9. Planetary Science

    Curiosity gets the dirt on Mars

    The NASA rover completes an analysis of the first soil collected from Gale Crater.

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  10. Neuroscience

    An on-off switch for eating

    By triggering or silencing certain brain cells, scientists can get mice to feed or stop feeding regardless of hunger.

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  11. Life

    Newfound biological clocks set by the moon

    Two unrelated marine organisms have rhythms dictated by tides, lunar cycle.

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  12. Ecosystems

    Light pollution takes a toll on the aquatic food web

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