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  1. Humans

    Former baseball players have big, strong bones in old age

    Decades later, health benefits of exercise persist in male athletes’ bones.

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  2. Climate

    Kangaroo gut microbes make eco-friendly farts

    Understanding kangaroos’ low-methane flatulence could help researchers lower greenhouse gas emissions from livestock.

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  3. Animals

    A parasitic cuckoo can be a good thing

    Great spotted cuckoo chicks show that brood parasites may benefit their hosts.

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  4. Life

    Human noses know more than 1 trillion odors

    Sense of smell displays a vast reach in study of people’s ability to distinguish between scents.

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  5. Animals

    Like a boomerang, relocated python comes back again

    Burmese pythons, which have invaded the Everglades, can find their way home when people move them dozens of kilometers.

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  6. Space

    Exoplanet oxygen may not signal alien life

    Oxygen in an exoplanet atmosphere may come from water and ultraviolet light, not alien life.

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  7. Cosmology

    Gravitational waves unmask universe just after Big Bang

    For the first time, researchers have seen traces of superfast cosmic expansion and gravity waves.

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  8. Physics

    A tractor beam reels in objects with sound

    A tractor beam of focused sound waves has pulled on an object as large as a Toblerone chocolate bar.

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  9. Science & Society

    Slight boost for U.S. climate research funding

    While most science funding remains flat lined in President Obama’s 2015 budget, climate change research gets an increase.

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  10. Astronomy

    Behemoth star destroys potential solar systems

    A massive star in the Orion Nebula is evaporating disks surrounding young stars in its neighborhood but some disks mysteriously manage to survive.

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  11. Archaeology

    Roman gladiator school digitally rebuilt

    Imaging techniques unveil a 1,900-year-old Roman gladiators’ training center that’s buried beneath a site in Austria.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Experimental drug might get the salt out

    Tests in people and rats show sodium levels in blood drop as drug candidate limits the body’s salt absorption.

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