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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. Life

    Steroids boost muscles for the long haul

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

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  4. Cosmology

    Dark energy search gets murkier

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

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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Cosmology

    Candidates for dark matter particles bite the dust

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

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Mice lose the blues quickly with experimental drug

    Studies in mice point to new, fast-acting antidepressants.

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  9. Genetics

    People’s genes welcome their microbes

    In mice and humans, genetic variants seem to control the bacterial mix on and in bodies.

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  10. Chemistry

    Floating beads of water act as tiny test tubes

    Chemists exploit pH and ion charge in superheated water drops to create nanoparticles.

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  11. Physics

    Material looks cool while heating up

    Substance that tricks infrared camera could pave the way for new types of camouflage and heating technology.

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  12. Astronomy

    Oort cloud tosses astronomers a cometary curveball

    In late November, ISON will deliver debris from the dawn of the solar system to Earth’s doorstep.

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