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  1. Health & Medicine

    Deciphering cell’s recycling machinery earns Nobel

    The 2016 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his work on autophagy, a process that cells use to break down old parts for future use.

    By Meghan Rosen and Laurel Hamers
  2. Anthropology

    Big Viking families nurtured murder

    Vikings in Iceland got a murderous boost from having large extended families.

    By Bruce Bower
  3. Physics

    Rarest nucleus reluctant to decay

    Tantalum-180m has a half-life more than a million times the age of the universe.

    By Emily Conover
  4. Genetics

    To make female pill bugs, just add bacterial genes

    Genes from Wolbachia bacteria infiltrated pill bugs and now make genetic males female.