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  1. Chemistry

    A safer antioxidant?

    Scientists have developed a synthetic antioxidant that won't, at high doses, foster the tissue damage the compounds are meant to prevent.

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  2. Tech

    Worms may spin silk fit for skin

    Silk cocoons could become puffs of valuable human proteins if a new bioengineering method pans out.

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  3. Physics

    Electronic Acrobats: Tidily tweaking electrons’ twirls

    The first demonstration of three-dimensional, electrical control of a quantum property of electrons known as spin marks an important step toward a new type of spin-based electronics and, possibly, quantum computers.

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  4. Earth

    If It’s Wet in Malaysia .