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  1. Planetary Science

    Before the Mississippi, minerals show ancient rivers flowed west

    Michigan zircons uncover the path of an ancient river system across North America.

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  2. Life

    Marine creature cooks up chemical defense from food

    The sea hare transforms a benign algal pigment into a noxious molecule to help ward off crabs and other predators, new studies show.

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  3. Physics

    A giant proposal for a new type of molecule

    Atoms linked across vast distances, can point in two directions at once

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  4. Space

    Jupiter takes yet another hit

    For the third time in 16 years, astronomers have documented a collision between Jupiter and a nearby body.

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  5. Animals

    Sex, crickets and videotape

    Security cameras focused on insects in the wild are looking at whether lab science has gotten the singing, mating and fighting right.

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  6. Humans

    2010 Kavli Prizes awarded

    The 2010 Kavli laureates in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience are named for work on powerful telescopes, neuron chatter molecules, building structures with DNA and a method for moving individual atoms.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    New angle on treating sepsis

    An enzyme that plays a role in the lethal inflammatory disorder may be a suitable drug target, early tests show.

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  8. Humans

    Tracing Jewish roots

    An analysis of the entire genome of Jewish people shows Middle Eastern roots and traces ancestry across the globe.

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  9. Animals

    Diversified portfolio yields benefit for salmon stocks

    Local diversity keeps sockeye from going bust every few years, a study finds.

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  10. Life

    Seaweed genome reveals tools for multicellular lifestyle

    Genetic blueprints of a brown alga reveal adaptations to changing tides and may give clues for to evolution of more complex life.

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  11. Planetary Science

    Jupiter’s crash of ’09

    The body that crashed into Jupiter last summer was likely an asteroid, and such impacts might occur as frequently as every 10 to 15 years, new studies suggest.

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  12. Chemistry

    Vodka’s bonds may influence taste

    Differences in vodka brands reflect structural variations in cages of water molecules encasing ethanol, new research suggests.

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