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  1. Climate

    Humans’ greenhouse gas emissions throw next ice age off schedule

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  2. Science & Society

    In many fields of science, it’s always the year of the rat

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  3. Genetics

    Today’s information revolution illuminates diseases spread in the age of discovery

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  4. Math

    Medicine needs a sensible way to measure weight of the evidence

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  5. Earth

    Antarctica’s concealed mountains tell of wonders revealed by pure science

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  6. Science & Society

    Scientists’ TV image isn’t really as diabolical as they sometimes worry

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  7. Science & Society

    Aftermath of ancient eruption offers lessons in adapting to disaster

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  8. Climate

    Matt Crenson, Reconstructions

    In ancient Southwest droughts, a warning of dry times to come.

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  9. Humans

    Matt Crenson, Reconstructions

    Tools tell a more complicated tale of the origin of the human genus.

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  10. Science & Society

    Alexandra Witze, Earth in action

    Loss of eyes in the sky hurts science on the ground.

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  11. Math

    Tom Siegfried, Randomness

    For what you want to know, Bayes offers superior stats.

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  12. Math

    Julie Rehmeyer, Math trek

    Turning numbers into shapes offers potential medical benefits.

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