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  1. Animals

    How to see with eyes made of rock

    Tiny mollusk eyes in chiton armor can pick up rough images.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Having parasites can boost fertility

    Infection with parasitic worms tinkers with fertility.

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  3. Animals

    Adorable birds tap dance their way into the heart of a mate

    Blue-capped cordon-bleu songbirds not only sing, but also tap dance to woo mates, study reveals.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    A good diet for you may be bad for me

    Eating the same foods can produce very different reactions in people.

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  5. Planetary Science

    Way-out world is solar system’s most distant object — for now

    An icy world over 15 billion kilometers from the sun is the new record holder for most distant object in the solar system.

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  6. Animals

    Vampire bats share blood to make friends

    Vampire bats that share blood with nonrelatives have a wider social network to rely on when they’re in need, a new study finds.

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  7. Animals

    Getting creative to cut methane from cows

    Changing feed, giving vaccines and selective breeding may enable scientists to help beef and dairy cattle shake their title as one of society's worst methane producers.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Engineered vocal cords show promise in animal tests

    Lab-grown vocal cord tissue could lead the way to better treatments for people with vocal problems

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  9. Planetary Science

    Glimpse of baby planet shows what to expect when a star is expecting

    A baby planet is still growing in the disk of gas that encircles a young star.

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  10. Science & Society

    The vagus is the nerve to know

    The nervous system's meandering superhighway has the potential to lead researchers treatments for myriad health conditions.

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  11. Planetary Science

    Bright minds, antineutrinos and more reader feedback

    In the November 28, 2015, issue of Science News, readers discussed humanizing science, frog mating calls, antineurtrinos and Martian dust storms.

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  12. Psychology

    Culture shapes sense of fairness

    Culture shapes kids’ sense of fairness, especially when they get the short end of the stick.

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