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  1. Health & Medicine

    Tricks Foods Play

    Most people would never equate downing a well-dressed salad or a fried chicken thigh with toking a joint of marijuana. But to Joseph Hibbeln of the National Institutes of Health, the comparison isn’t a big stretch.

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  2. Animals

    Face Smarts

    Macaques, sheep and even wasps may join people as masters at facial recognition.

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  3. Planetary Science

    Planetary Peekaboo

    Astronomers aren’t playing games when it comes to spotting an exoEarth.

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  4. Tech

    When Networks Network

    Once studied solo, systems display surprising behavior when they interact.

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  5. Making Data Work

    Researchers pursue analogy between statistical evidence and thermodynamics.

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  6. Earth

    The facts behind the frack

    The gas, primarily methane, is cheap and relatively clean. Because America is brimful of the stuff, harvesting the fuel via fracking could provide the country jobs and reduce its dependence on foreign sources of energy.

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  7. As Told By the Egg

    The story of fertilization, from the female point of view.

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  8. Uncommon Carriers

    People have a surprising number of rare genetic variants.

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  9. Tangled Roots

    Mingling among Stone Age peoples muddies humans’ evolutionary story.

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  10. Himalaya Rush

    Scientists scurry to figure out the status of glaciers on the roof of the world

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  11. Chemistry

    Heat Beaters

    Scientists seek enzymes that don’t mind working at high temperatures.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Cartilage Creation

    New joint tissue could keep people moving, reducing need for knee or hip replacements.

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