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  1. Chemistry

    Tracking bird flu one poop at a time

    Mice can sniff out duck droppings laced with the virus.

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  2. Chemistry

    Deep-sea oil plume goes missing

    Controversy arises over whether bacteria have completely gobbled oil up.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    New gel seals wounds fast

    A synthetic material revs up blood clotting at low cost.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Amphetamine abusers face blood vessel risk

    The odds of sustaining aorta damage are more than tripled in people who abuse or are dependent on amphetamines, a review of hospital records finds.

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  5. Space

    Solar system older than estimated

    A meteorite’s age has pushed back the estimated time of the solar system’s formation by almost 2 million years.

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  6. Life

    ‘Whispering’ gives bats the drop on prey

    A stealth approach to echolocation appears to be adaptive for catching eared moths.

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  7. Computing

    Going viral takes a posse, not an army

    Quality of followers, not quantity, determines which tweets will fly

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  8. Earth

    Most BP oil still pollutes the Gulf, scientists conclude

    Below the surface, plumes of oil are proving slow to disperse and break down.

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  9. Space

    Moon shrinks

    New pictures expand evidence of the moon’s shrinkage over the past billion years.

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  10. Plants

    Chlorophyll gets an ‘f’

    New variety of photosynthetic pigment is the first to be discovered in 60 years

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  11. Planetary Science

    Worldwide slowdown in plant carbon uptake

    A decade of droughts has stifled the increasing growth of terrestrial vegetation.

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  12. Life

    Gene profiles may predict TB prognosis

    A molecular profile may help doctors predict who will get sick from TB infections.

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