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  1. Health & Medicine

    Inside Job

    Teams of microbes pull strings in the human body.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  2. Humans

    Counterfeit Crackdown

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

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  3. Space

    Good-bye Shuttle

    Looking back at the space plane’s scientific legacy

    By Alexandra Witze
  4. Humans

    Simple Heresy

    Rules of thumb challenge complex financial analyses 

    By Bruce Bower
  5. Health & Medicine

    Healthy Aging in a Pill

    To extend life span, scientists envision a drug that mimics the benefits of a near-starvation diet.

    By Laura Beil
  6. Astronomy

    Stellar oddballs

    Kepler spacecraft finds much more than exoplanets.

    By Charles Petit

  7. Into orbit

    MESSENGER pays a yearlong visit to Mercury.

    By Ron Cowen

  8. Dawn of the Dinosaurs

    Paleontologists probe the majestic reptiles’ origin and rise.

    By Alexandra Witze
  9. Health & Medicine

    Going Under

    While every anesthetic drug has its own effect, scientists know little about how the various versions work on the brain to transport patients from normal waking awareness to dreamless nothingness.

    By Susan Gaidos

  10. Yawn

    Latest research awakens debate over why people can’t keep their mouths closed.

    By Laura Sanders

  11. Atomic Anatomy

    A century ago, Ernest Rutherford inaugurated the nuclear age.

    By Tom Siegfried

  12. Moved by Light

    Lasers push everyday objects into the quantum world.

    By Devin Powell