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  1. Climate

    Climate might be right for a deal

    The upcoming Copenhagen negotiations will take steps toward an international, climate-stabilizing treaty.

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  2. Physics

    Invisibility Uncloaked

    In the race to make things disappear, scientists gain ground on science fiction.

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  3. Aping the Stone Age

    Chimp chasers join artifact extractors to probe the roots of stone tools.

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  4. As the worms churn

    Burrowing animals mix soil and sediments, shaping the environment and scientists’ understanding of it.

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  5. A partnership apart

    DNA in hand, scientists dissect and redefine the iconic lichen mutualism.

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  6. Better living through plasmonics

    Mixing light with nanotechnology could help treat cancer and build faster computers.

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  7. All kinds of tired

    Donkeys sleep about three out of each 24 hours. Certain reef fish spend the night moving their fins as if swimming in their sleep. Some biologists argue that all animals sleep in some form or another. But identifying sleep can get complicated. Insects have brain architecture so different from humans’, for example, that electrophysiological recordings […]

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  8. Space

    Windows on the Universe

    Astronomy’s multiwavelength revolution paints a more complete picture of the cosmos

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  9. Life

    Enter the Virosphere

    As evidence of the influence of viruses escalates, appreciation of these master manipulators grows.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    The Mesmerized Mind

    Scientists are unveiling how the brain works when hypnotized

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  11. Particle Physics

    Interview: Murray Gell-Mann

    The scientist who developed quark theory turns 80 today. To mark the occasion, Science News presents an extended interview with the physicist.

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  12. Desperately Seeking Moly

    Unreliable supplies of feedstock for widely used medical imaging isotope prompt efforts to develop U.S. sources.

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