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  1. Tech

    Coming soon: Holographic Skype

    The creators of the fastest telepresence system to date predict real-time 3-D TV in a decade.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    MRIs pinpoint time of stroke

    Doing a magnetic resonance scan promptly when a patient arrives at a hospital could render more patients eligible for a time-sensitive clot-busting therapy that can limit brain damage.

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  3. Chemistry

    Skin is no barrier to BPA, study shows

    The new finding suggests handling store receipts could be a significant source of internal exposure to the hormone-mimicking chemical.

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  4. Earth

    Arctic lake yields climate record

    A Siberian drilling project goes to great lengths to capture an ancient climate record in a 3.6 million-year-old crater.

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  5. Physics

    Entanglement loophole closed

    A long-distance experiment rejects a challenge to quantum physics.

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  6. Tech

    Trading places

    As the pace of financial transactions accelerates, researchers look forward to a time when the only limiting factor is the speed of light.

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  7. Life

    Supersizing pumpkins

    Engineers gain insight into the extreme growth of gargantuan gourds.

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  8. Space

    Revealing the galaxy’s dark side

    Observations of the Milky Way’s center detect gamma rays characteristic of the universe’s missing mass.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    The fingers don’t lie

    The brain has at least two copy editors, typing experiments show.

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  10. Humans

    Deep African roots for toolmaking method

    A method for trimming stone-tool edges appeared 75,000 years ago in southern Africa, archaeologists contend, long before previous evidence of the practice.

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  11. Space

    Neutron star breaks mass record

    The new heavyweight champion in its stellar class rules out a number of exotic theories.

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  12. Tech

    Mind over machine

    People control a computer through electrodes implanted in their brains.

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