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  1. A Fly Called Iyaiyai

    All that Latin has its light side.

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  2. Astronomy

    Captured on Camera: Are They Planets?

    Studying several groups of nearby, newborn stars–many of which weren't known until a few years ago–researchers may soon obtain the first image of a bona fide planet orbiting a star other than our sun.

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  3. A More Perfect Union

    Forsaking life in the outside world, endosymbiotic bacteria of some insects traded freedom and nutrients for life inside a cell.

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  4. Chemistry

    Cosmic Chemistry Gets Creative

    By simulating extraterrestrial impacts on Earth, researchers are firing away at the question of how life started.

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  5. Computing

    Motif for Infection

    A novel computer program pinpoints proteins of troublesome bacteria.

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  6. Earth

    Big Bergs Ahoy!

    Although the break-up of Antarctica's northernmost ice shelves has been linked to warmer temperatures in the area, the cause of the unusual number of large icebergs calving from the continent's southern ice shelves last year was likely not global warming.

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  7. Tech

    Getting Nanowired

    Makers of nanowires may overcome the limits that loom for microchip fabrication.

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  8. Paleontology

    The Latest Pisces of an Evolutionary Puzzle

    The recent discovery of coelacanths off the northeastern coast of South Africa was the first sighting of the rare fish in that country since the first living coelacanth, a type of fish thought to have been extinct for millions of years, was caught there in late 1938.

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  9. Back from the Brink

    Psychological and supportive programs for schizophrenia sufferers, often used in combination with antipsychotic drugs, are attracting increasing research interest in the United States and Europe.

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  10. Ecosystems

    Underwater Refuge

    Efforts are under way to greatly expand coastal no-fishing zones.

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  11. Math

    Circle Game

    Packing circles within a circle turns a mathematical surprise.

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  12. Isn’t It a Bloomin’ Crime?

    Darwin called them felons, those creatures that take nectar without pollinating anything, but some modern scientists are reopening the case.

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