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Earth

Earth/Environment

Flameproofing baby products, early tectonics, the future of tomatoes and more in this week's news.

Space

Black hole jets in HD

Images of unprecedented resolution offer insight into how black holes swallow up matter.

Tech

Information flow can reveal dirty deeds

An analysis of Enron e-mails reveals that corrupt networks have a distinctive shape.

Health & Medicine

A year adds up to big changes in brain

Third grade brings big shifts in how kids use their heads to solve math problems.

Physics

Light created from the void

An international team of physicists confirms a long-held theory about the quantum energy that fills empty space.

Life

Genes & Cells

European scientists object to genetic testing, plus triggers for Alzheimer’s and asthma in this week’s news.

Humans

Association for Psychological Science meeting

News includes likeable look-alikes, seeing clearer through meditation and bouncing back from bad events.

Health & Medicine

Inside Job

Teams of microbes pull strings in the human body.

Humans

Counterfeit Crackdown

New scientific tools help tell fake meds from the real thing.

Space

Good-bye Shuttle

Looking back at the space plane’s scientific legacy