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  1. Neuroscience

    Famous brain surgery patient H.M. retained a chunk of hippocampus

    The patient's amnesia was probably due to the loss of other regions and neural connections.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Nanopackaging biodegrades after delivering cancer drug

    DNA binding creates potentially nontoxic tumor-targeting structures.

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  3. Animals

    Windows may kill up to 988 million birds a year in the United States

    Single-family homes and low-rise buildings do much more damage than skyscrapers.

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  4. Life

    How to tell good gut microbes from bad

    Researchers sort out influences of specific bacteria on body fat, the immune system.

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  5. Animals

    Mantis shrimp’s bizarre visual system may save brainpower

    The mantis shrimp sees each color separately with one of a dozen kinds of specialized cells, a system that may help the animal quickly see colors without a lot of brainpower.

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  6. Planetary Science

    Old rover finds new evidence of water on Mars

    Opportunity’s analysis of rocks at Endeavour crater reveals chemistry that could have supported life.

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  7. Physics

    Laser builds mirror by pushing beads together

    The light technique may one day be used to build giant telescopes in space.

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  8. Animals

    Sloths, moths, algae may live in three-way benefit pact

    Insects and green slime may justify the slow mammal’s risky descent from trees.

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  9. Life

    Pigment pas de deux puts stripes on zebrafish

    Interactions between color-producing cells generate patterns on fish fins.

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  10. Cosmology

    Filament of cosmic web set aglow

    Astronomers say they have glimpsed a brightly lit strand of the cosmic web, the universe’s underlying structure

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  11. Neuroscience

    Thinking hard weighs heavy on the brain

    A balance measures the tiny changes in force due to blood flow behind a person's thoughts.

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  12. Anthropology

    Skulls from ancient London suggest ritual decapitations

    The city’s Roman rulers had special watery places to keep the heads of military enemies or vanquished gladiators.

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