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  1. Space

    Lopsided universe demands different explanation

    Cosmologists analyzing an apparent asymmetry in the pattern of radiation reveal evidence for a new type of field in the early universe.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Sense for morphine has gender gap

    Female rats have fewer brain receptors that sense morphine, making the drug less effective. The work points to the need for more research on why medicine potency can vary among people.

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  3. Math

    The Sudoku solution

    Mathematicians use Sudoku to understand a mysterious, powerful algorithm.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Experimental drug fends off emphysema in mice

    Mice exposed to cigarette smoke and then ed the drug and fended of emphysema, suggesting the edible drug might help ex-smokers.

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  5. Life

    Buzzing bees protect plant leaves

    Honeybee air traffic can interrupt caterpillars' relentless munching.

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  6. Earth

    Warmer oceans would fuel more thunderstorms

    Satellite data reveal more thunderheads forming as tropical sea-surface temperatures rise.

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  7. Book Review: The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces by Frank Wilczek

    Book Review: The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces by Frank Wilczek

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  8. Book Review: Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War by Jeffrey A. Lockwood

    Book Review: Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War by Jeffrey A. Lockwood

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  9. Cranes: A Natural History of a Bird in Crisis by Janice M. Hughes

    Cranes: A Natural History of a Bird in Crisis by Janice M. Hughes

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  10. Dyslexia, Learning, and the Brain by Roderick I. Nicolson and Angela J. Fawcett

    Dyslexia, Learning, and the Brain by Roderick I. Nicolson and Angela J. Fawcett

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  11. Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America by Stephen Trimble

    Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America by Stephen Trimble

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  12. The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine by Charles Petzold

    The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine by Charles Petzold

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