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  1. A Spitting Image of Health

    How saliva can help doctors diagnose disease.

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  2. Darwin’s Tongues

    Languages, like genes, can tell evolutionary tales.

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  3. Space Eats

    Astronaut journey to Mars requires new age nibbles.

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  4. Lopped Off

    Removal of top predators trickles through the food web.

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  5. Beware the Long Tail

    Economic models of risk don’t add up, cadre of researchers caution.

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  6. Like a Bolt from Above

    Lightning scientists begin to solve electric mysteries.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Reviving A Tired Heart

    With a bit of encouragement, the life-giving muscle may renew itself.

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  8. Physics

    The Ultimate Clock

    Keeping precise time on the universe’s scale.

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  9. Astronomy

    A Shadowed Past

    Understanding of moon’s earliest days gets even murkier.

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  10. Life

    Singled Out

    How to study cells, one by one.

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  11. Planetary Science

    Fertile Frontiers

    Alien-life hunters focus on moons in outer solar system

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  12. Health & Medicine

    The Probabilistic Mind

    Human brains evolved to deal with doubt.

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