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  1. Planetary Science

    Meteor explosions like this year’s Russian fireball more common than thought

    Chelyabinsk-sized rocks may come to Earth every 30 years, on average.

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  2. Life

    Newborns’ weak immunity may allow helpful bacteria to gain a foothold

    Though infant immune systems raise risk of infection, they also allow good microbes into the body, study in mice shows.

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  3. Neuroscience

    Autism may be detectable in baby’s first months of life

    Infants later diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder lose tendency to gaze at others’ eyes during first half-year, researchers find.

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  4. Astronomy

    Billions and billions of Earth-sized planets call Milky Way home

    Using Kepler data, astronomers estimate that a sizeable fraction of the galaxy’s sunlike stars have Earth-sized planets that could support liquid water.

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  5. Earth

    Greenhouse gas injections may unleash earthquakes

    Plans to pump carbon dioxide into the ground to mitigate climate change could create other problems.

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  6. Neuroscience

    Brain enables sight without light

    Sensory cross talk may underlie ability to see one’s own hand moving when it’s pitch black.

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  7. Astronomy

    Astronomers explain planets’ backward motion

    Giant planets in distant orbits may be reversing the direction of their closer-in neighbors.

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  8. Life

    Steroids boost muscles for the long haul

    Experiments in mice suggest that effects don’t end when doping does.

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  9. Cosmology

    Dark energy search gets murkier

    Supernova measurements muddle scientists’ efforts to explain universe’s accelerating expansion.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Exercise seems to limit bad falls in elderly

    Regular exercise might limit broken bones due to bad falls in elderly people.

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  11. Life

    Morel mushroom may grow crop of its own

    A fungus could be a farmer itself, sowing, cultivating and harvesting bacteria.

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  12. Cosmology

    Candidates for dark matter particles bite the dust

    Most sensitive experiment yet determines that earlier findings were just artifacts.

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