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  1. Humans

    Crime’s digital past

    Computer science makes history, gleaning new findings from centuries' worth of transcripts from a Victorian-era courthouse.

    By Bruce Bower
  2. Space

    Lighting the universe

    Scientists rethink what the first stars were like and how they formed.

    By Ron Cowen
  3. Health & Medicine

    Residents of the brain

    It's a zoo in there: Scientists turn up startling diversity among neurons.

    By Laura Sanders
  4. Health & Medicine

    The Power of D

    Sunshine vitamin’s potential health benefits stir up, split scientists.

    By Nathan Seppa
  5. Humans

    Collapsing Coastlines

    How Arctic shores are pulled a-sea 

    By Daniel Strain

  6. Evolution’s Wedges

    Finding the genes that drive one species into two.

    By Daniel Strain
  7. Earth

    Death of a Continent, Birth of an Ocean

    Africa’s Afar region gives glimpses of geology in action.

    By Alexandra Witze
  8. Health & Medicine

    Mind-Controlled

    Linking brain and computer may soon lead to practical prosthetics for daily life.

    By Susan Gaidos
  9. Health & Medicine

    Inside Job

    Teams of microbes pull strings in the human body.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  10. Humans

    Counterfeit Crackdown

    New scientific tools help tell fake meds from the real thing.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  11. Space

    Good-bye Shuttle

    Looking back at the space plane’s scientific legacy

    By Alexandra Witze
  12. Humans

    Simple Heresy

    Rules of thumb challenge complex financial analyses 

    By Bruce Bower