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  1. Humans

    Maya civilization’s roots may lie in ritual

    Cultural exchanges in southern Mexico and Guatemala tied to ancient society's rise.

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  2. Humans

    Web searches for money words anticipate market moves

    Dow drops follow weeks when more people search Google for ‘debt’ or ‘stocks.’

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  3. Earth

    Early Earth’s chlorine blown away by giant impacts

    Low levels of chlorine on planet's surface have long puzzled scientists.

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  4. Life

    Mutation makes H5N1 flu lose its grip

    Laboratory-added genetic change makes avian influenza unable to bind to bird cells.

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  5. Life

    Why corals do calisthenics

    Pulsating motion appears to flush water to improve photosynthetic efficiency in symbiotic algae.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Circumcision changes penis biology

    Altered mix of microbes might reduce susceptibility to viral infections.

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  7. Psychology

    Disputed signs of consciousness seen in babies’ brains

    Within five months of birth, infants produce a possible neural marker of being aware of what they see.

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  8. Astronomy

    Most Earthlike planets yet seen bring Kepler closer to its holy grail

    Space telescope finds globes that, compared with our world, are slightly larger and orbit a smaller star.

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  9. Life

    Infants, whether mice or human, love to be carried

    Being toted around calms and quiets babies of both species.

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  10. Earth

    Magnitude 7.8 earthquake hits Iran

    Casualties reported in nearby Pakistan from temblor.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Bioengineered kidney transplanted into rat

    Cleansed of cells and repopulated anew, bioengineered organ successfully produces urine.

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  12. Cosmology

    Dark matter detector reports hints of WIMPs

    Experiment hundreds of meters underground detects three candidate signs of dark matter, though physicists are cautious about the finding.

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