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  1. Planetary Science

    Earth, neighbors weren’t the first rocky planets in the solar system

    Jupiter might have swept an earlier generation of rocky planets into the sun, leaving room for Earth and its neighbors to form.

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  2. Quantum Physics

    Quantum links provide clues to causation

    Quantum entanglement enables physicists to determine cause and effect just by tracking the association between two measurements.

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  3. Climate

    Rain slows whipping hurricane winds

    Taking raindrop drag into account — which may slow hurricane winds by as much as 30 percent — could help improve hurricane forecasts.

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  4. Anthropology

    Cache of eagle claws points to Neandertal jewelry-making

    Eagle-claw jewelry points to Neandertals’ symbolic behavior before contact with humans, researchers argue.

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  5. Planetary Science

    Martian aurora, high-altitude dust clouds surprise scientists

    Surprise auroras and mystery dust clouds dance in the Martian atmosphere, NASA’s newest Mars orbiter discovers.

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  6. Life

    Turning the gut microbiome into a chat room

    Bacterial communication molecules can help shape microbial communities after antibiotics.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Prospective Crohn’s drug yields high rate of remission

    An experimental Crohn’s disease drug triggers a high remission rate in patients.

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  8. Chemistry

    New method leaves older ways of 3-D printing in its goopy wake

    Finding the sweet spot in a pool of resin, chemists can create detailed 3-D objects faster than 3-D printers.

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  9. Chemistry

    Cooking up life’s ingredients, all in one pot

    An interconnected series of chemical reactions with a few primordial chemicals can cook up all the necessary elements of life

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  10. Quantum Physics

    Finding quantum entanglement in a crowd

    Physicists have measured entanglement between pairs of photons within a macroscopic beam of light, a first step toward understanding how particles’ quantum connections lead to large-scale effects.

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  11. Climate

    Arctic warming bolsters summer heat waves

    Sagging storms brought on by rapid Arctic warming worsen summertime heat waves across the Northern Hemisphere.

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  12. Life

    For healthy eating, timing matters

    Limiting eating times improves heart function in fruit flies.

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