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  1. Astronomy

    Telescope takes close-ups of distant star

    Radio astronomers have for the first time probed ejected gas in the immediate surroundings of a distant star.

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  2. Paleontology

    Feathered fossil still stirs debate

    More than 2 years after scientists first described 120-million-year-old fossils of a feathered animal, a new analysis seems to bolster the view that the turkey-size species was a bird has-been and not a bird wanna-be.

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  3. Tech

    Nanotechnologists get a squirt gun, almost

    A novel computer simulation of molecular behavior suggests that a minuscule squirt gun able to spit liquids a few hundred nanometers ought to work.

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  4. Skin cells reveal they have hairy origins

    The outer layers of the skin may spring from cells in hair follicles.