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  1. Science & Society

    Rocky families, not same-sex parents, blamed for kids’ troubles in adulthood

    Range of adult problems linked to childhood family changes, not gay parents.

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  2. Planetary Science

    Enceladus’ ocean goes global

    A subsurface liquid water ocean envelops Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus.

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  3. Planetary Science

    Mars’ ionosphere mystery explained

    A decades-old disagreement between the Viking landers and spacecraft buzzing around Mars might come down to what time of day each was investigating the Red Planet’s ionosphere.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Caffeine resets body’s clock

    Caffeine can push the body’s clock back.

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  5. Environment

    Home fires, farm fumes are leading causes of air-pollution deaths

    Deadly air pollution comes from surprising sources, but toxicity of different types is still up in the air.

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  6. Animals

    Dogs flub problem-solving test

    Confronting a tough task, dogs are more likely than wolves to give up and gaze at a human

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  7. Science & Society

    Short memory can be good strategy

    Game theory reveals that there’s a limit to the effectiveness of relying on prior results to predict competitors’ behavior.

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  8. Materials Science

    Electron waves refract negatively

    Waves of electrons have been bent backward in a sheet of graphene, allowing physicists to focus electrons the way a lens focuses light.

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  9. Animals

    Loss of vision meant energy savings for cavefish

    Novel measurement feeds idea that tight energy budgets favored vision loss in cavefish.

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  10. Planetary Science

    Asteroid impacts may explain Venus’ missing oxygen

    Asteroid impacts on Venus might have helped sequester oxygen left behind when Earth’s sister planet lost its water, new simulations show.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Less vitamin D and melatonin bad for multiple sclerosis

    Vitamin D and melatonin play important roles in multiple sclerosis.

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  12. Life

    Humans adjust walking style for energy efficiency

    Humans can adjust their steps to walk in a way that uses the least amount of energy.

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